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[-] [email protected] 137 points 5 days ago

Labelling the crab as C is sure to ruffle some exoskeletons..

[-] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago

As at least one nautically themed childrens' book surely has it: C is for crab.

Coming at programming sideways feels more like a Haskell or Prolog thing, though.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Apple is for ADA

Ball is for BASH

Crab is for C

Dog is for D

Elephant is for Ecsmascript

Fox is for F#

Goat is for Go

House is for Haskell

Igloo is for

...okay I got stuck there.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Java has Duke

Duke, Java's mascot. A triangular shaped character with a red nose.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Branding fail so bad that everyone forgets that Java even has a mascot.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I thought it was a cup of coffee? A hipster barista in 90’s Memphis style illustration would be most accurate I think.

Damn, I went searching online for some examples and got nothing that was really from back then. Just shitloads of AI vaporware slop. Time to dig out my old design mags I guess.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

There are dozens of us! Millions of devices and dozens of us know about Duke!

Fun fact, Duke is released to the public. I forget in what way exactly, but Oracle freed them (him? it?).

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Igloo is for Idris

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I mean, at the end of the day, if you really understand your language of choice, you know that it is jusf a bunch of fancy libraries and compiler tricks of top of C. So in my mind, I'm a fully evolved programmer in a language, when I could write anything I can write in that language in C instead.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

only true if your language compiles to c. fortran peeps are safe.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

It's not what you can use that language to do - all general purpose languages are Turing Complete, so what you can do with them is exactly equal. It is about what the language will do for you. Rust compiler will stop you from writing memory unsafe code, C compiler cannot do that.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

...are Turing Complete, so what you can do with them is exactly equal.

But they're only equal in the Turing complete sense, which (iirc) says nothing about performance or timing.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Or, rather, most compiled languages are just syntactic sugar on top of assembly, and that's especially true with C. (Oh, you can use curly brances and stuff for blocks? That's sure easier to read than the label mess you get with assembly.)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Assembly is a little too high level for me. I prefer to directly write machine code.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

You may as well be a script kiddie. I leverage my very steady hand and highly magnetized needle to write my code

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[-] [email protected] 42 points 5 days ago

Rust is still in the locker room having an argument with their coach (borrow checker).

[-] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

C++ is home sick, currently the doctor (compiler) is not sure whether it's got the flu or a terminal cancer.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

terminal cancer

"I'm sorry, you've been diagnosed with :(){:|:&};:"

"You have a couple seconds to live."

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I think it works great. At least I'm don't have to deal with Python

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I never had any issues with npm. Moved to bun nowadays and still going strong. If I want to install something, I install it, and then it works.

Setting up anything with pip however...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

The only thing that sucks about npm are when package dependencies are not updated and dependency hell becomes very real, but that's not really the fault of the package manager.

Yeah, fuck virtual environments and different Python versions.

[-] [email protected] 71 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Rust: Downloading 7390327 crates...

[-] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

I feel like Rust would be some complaint from the compiler saying that some apparently unrelated struct can't be Send/Sync for some inscrutable reason. Or something about pinning a future.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

The puffer fish is Bash

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Yep, it's the one starting everything.

And doing nothing else. And still something manages to no be right.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago

Why is the crab not Rust. This is outrageous, it’s unfair

[-] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Rust would be some borrow checker compile error like

borrowed data escapes outside of associated function

argument requires that `'1` must outlive `'static`

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

rust errors are funny if you don't know rust

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Those also happen to be errors you'd typically run into, if you don't yet really know Rust...

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago

Not a word of a lie, I saw a "segmentation fault" error in JavaScript.

Can't remember how we resolved it, but it did blow my mind.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Technically any language runtime can end in a segmentation fault.

For some languages, in principle this shouldn't be possible, but the runtimes can have bugs and/or you are calling libraries that do some native code at some point.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Even safe rust can do it, if we allow compiler bugs

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Ive also seen this, but not from js but node

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

I have seen a Java program I wrote terminate with SIGSEGV. I think a library was causing it.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago

C trying to take the shortest path to the goal.
Would probably have won (and broken the universe), if the referee didn't exist.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Python is being even smarter by trying to underflow the distance to the finish line.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

Why is openbsd the referee?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

"npm install" in particular is getting me.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

This implies that Javascript will get moving in the correct direction once it finishes installing dependencies, but it's just going to get fucked with incorrect behavior that doesn't even have the courtesy to throw an actual error.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Rust isn't shown because it's already completed the course

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