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Stop comparing programming languages (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Stop comparing programming languages

Python is versatile
JavaScript is powerful
Ruby is elegant
C is essential
C++
Java is robust

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much all of the command line coreutils programs I use daily are in C; cd, ls, pwd, touch, rm, etc. If I want to write some small utility I'll usually reach for a scripting language first like bash python ruby etc, but if it needs to be small and fast I'll use C instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Genuine question: if you're writing a new CLI utility, why not Rust? This is arguably where Rust has most excelled, most famously with ripgrep.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I don't have anything against Rust, I'm just not very familiar with it