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Stop comparing programming languages (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by chraebsli@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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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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[–] Norodix@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I do embedded. Its all C. You can't replace it.

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[–] Shareni@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You can't replace it.

Zig?

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[–] tehbilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Wait, that's like C with ~~extra~~ fewer steps

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[–] Shareni@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

And I think they rewrote a bunch of C libraries in order to have a better cross-platform compiler for C and zig. Or something along those lines

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[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Or Nim?

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[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Inertia is a mofo. I did embedded programming for industrial automation almost thirty years ago, building upon and expanding an existing nightmare of C code... and I bet there's still some of mine running something out there to this day.

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