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[–] sxan@midwest.social 157 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Go is like snakes: you're hatched from an egg and pretty much effective from the get-go. The older you get, the bigger prey you can eat, but otherwise things don't change much since you were hatched. Your species can thrive in almost any environment, you're effective, you have all the tools you need straight out of the egg.

Rust is like humans. There's a huge incubation period, and you're mostly helpless when you're born, but the older you get, the more effective you become with the tools nature graced you with. And you, like Thanos, are inevitable, even if it does mean the death of billions.

Python is like beaver. Everyone has an opinion about you: some think you're cute, some think you're wierd. You're perfectly suited to your environment, but things get awkward outside of your natural habitat - you can function, but not as well as when you're in your comfort zone. And when people encounter you where they're not expecting, they can be unpeasantly surprised, and you can cause them trouble.

C++ is like platypus. You resemble some other more simple, some might say sane, animal, but developed into a sort of frankenstein monster creature made from a jumble of parts and a stinger that, when it kills someone, comes as a shock. Every part of you serves some purpose, even if it seems tacked-on and out of place.

Then there's Node. You are everywhere. You are legion. You fill up ecosystems. People try to defend you, claiming that you serve some purpose in the foodchain, but there's scant evidence. Attempts to eradicate you fail. You often spread deadly disease. You breed, rapidly, persistently, relentlessly. You are widely hated, and yet everwhere.

Edit: typo

[–] odium@programming.dev 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

In other words, node = mosquitoes or invasive ant species?

[–] rushaction@programming.dev 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Roaches don't spread nearly as much disease as 'squiters, and IIRC are actually important in some ecosystems.

[–] rushaction@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

For sure! I was just thinking of a species that'll outlive humanity. :D

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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These are excellent.

I need to add Perl.

Perl is a honey bee. You are unassuming and pragmatic. You fill every niche. Your buzzing carries meaning, but only to other bees. In theory, your ecosystem niche is filled by many competing solutions that are more fit to purpose. But somehow we all know in our hearts that if you disappear, all life on the planet will probably die soon after.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

May I acquaint you with the Evil Mangler, historically used by GHC to compile Haskell via C. It would go through the assembly gcc generates and rearrange whole blocks and deletes instructions, such as function prologues and epilogues.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit. This thing sounds insanely awesome, but also quintessentially Perl. Like, the perfect holotype for Perl.

And, damn, but I'm impressed. I've seen code that I admired; elegant, inspired, wise code... but the Evil Mangler leaves me in awe.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is a very strange, and maybe unexpected, cultural overlap between Perl and Haskell: It's definitely possible to produce write-only Haskell, and once you get good enough writing Haskell it becomes very inviting to do so. It's generally going to be a tiny bit more robust, probably a bit slower, and do dirty things with syb regexen could never dream of. While Perl will rip a DFA through a html file while hoping for the best, Haskell will respect the tree structure and then bend it into eldritch knots, leaving you with a file that's like 50 lines of parser combinators ("it works on my files") and then five lines of completely inscrutable magic doing the actual processing.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

So then I guess C is salamander. Also lays eggs and lives by a pool, but doesn't do anything extra, and is a necessary step before most of the other modern languages.

COBOL is a coelacanth. To everyone's surprise, they're still out there. We thought they were an old, very extinct example of a non-terrestrial lobe-finned fish, but they actually hung on in some odd environments. They cause massive indigestion to anyone that has to consume them.

If Node is a mosquito, Javascript itself is another hymenopteran: the yellow jacket wasp. Just as hated, and with a tendency to injure handlers, but widely successful and defended as filling an actual useful role in nature. They build delicate, arguably pretty nests.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

I especially enjoyed your COBOL metaphor. Nicely done!

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[–] wischi@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

Node: You fill up ~~ecosystems~~ hard drives.

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[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 107 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] uis@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

C++ compiler:

Error: missing ';' on line 69

Warning: two statements on same tabulation depth after if without curly brackets on line 123. Are you sure you want this?

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sql errors: there be a syntax error roughly over there I think. Or maybe it's a semantic error somewhere else I'm not entirely sure. Listen man all I can say is that this one comma there definitely has something to do with it probably, and the error is most certainly either to its left or to its right.

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

JSON parsers are getting me recently. The error is somewhere on or after row 1, char 1. Maybe.

Possibly it's a BOM issue, or someone used double quotes typed on a Mac keyboard. Good luck.

[–] wyrmroot@programming.dev 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Rust: “Oh honey you aren’t ready to compile that yet”

[–] cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Empathy@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I think your comment embodies Rust more than any I've seen before

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

C holding a gun: "if you segfault it's your own fault"

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Assembly (Octopus swimming alone since birth): "compiler? what's a compiler"

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you're using C++, why not use streams?

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, fprintff is a C thing.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, that means that it's also a C++ thing, but streams are an even slicker concept that aren't a C thing, making higher-level code look nice and shiny - and abstracting away loads of I/O pain points while encapsulating useful features.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

C++ streams are ugly in their own right, but C++ preferred practice these days is to treat it as its own language rather than as a C superset. That is, lots of crufty old C stuff still works in C++ for legacy reasons, but using it when you don't have to is considered inappropriate.

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[–] capnminus@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Use streams, or fmt. fprintf is for C. It's like people buying a cheap android phone, then going for an iPhone.

I don't blame you though, C++ carries a lot of baggage. Modern C++ is pretty nice, though, as is Rust.

[–] someacnt_@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

And there's haskell compiler

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

C++ and C compilers are much more friendly now a days

[–] force@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

can't wait to use templates and have the compiler spit out a 120 page autobiography

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A quick -Werror=format -Werror=format-nonliteral -Werror=format-security will solve all your printf woes.

[–] CatChucks@mastodon.social 7 points 1 year ago

@stsquad
— Is my program about 1,000 lines complex?
— Yes, sure!
— Here you are my about 1,000 lines of 'printf("Hello, World\n");'.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The meme will be completely different after writing a few lines of rust for a week 😹

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Why are you using fprintf in C++ anyway?

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

How does Python at all help? I don't understand

[–] Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Cannot agree with compiler part of cpp. Linker errors on the other hand...

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Forgot a semicolon? That's 200 errors

[–] uis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
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