• @ActionHank@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    True, but I see this quote repeated so often that it kind of bugs me. It seems to be used in a thought-terminating way. As if we shouldn’t criticize languages. As if they aren’t tools that are able to be improved upon, or they’re all made equal. But I’m sure Bjarne Stroustrup needs to fend off hostility and unfair criticism as much as any programmer with a successful language.

    • 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓼
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      1 year ago

      oh i never considered that reading of the quote

      i read it as more: complaints about a language, particularly the amount of complaints, don’t mean it is a Bad Language that should be dropped in favor of something else

      in fact the complaints validate that the language is being used by people, and that–the number of people actually using the language to Do Things–is imo a decent proxy metric for the usefulness of the language

      so please complain about your languages’ shortcomings! i hate so many things about terraform / sh / python / golang / java and will gladly rant at length, and then go right back to using them

      except groovy

      fuck groovy