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tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

And python was created to teach programming. And PHP was something a guy used to maintain his webpage. If a language is useful it will gain popularity, and I never used a language which I didn’t find frustrating at some point.

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princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

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- ActionHank@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  True, but its not that useful of a thought. Or 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.
  
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  - princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨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 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
    
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