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An extremely crude comic about programming languages (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] sukhmel 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's a dig at people who don't want to switch to memory-safe languages like rust.

Now that's a stretch, it could be anything (no, it couldn't, although I think this may have application to some other pairs of languages)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, Rust is simply the big one right now. It could just as easily apply to people in the 1960's who didn't want to adopt structured programming, or a compiler at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I personally prefer the memory safety tools offered by D over Rust. D also doesn't come with const by default, and you can even opt out of the RAII stuff a certain graphics driver developer boasted about in the Linux developer mailings (RAII can be a bad for optimization).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel like this has come up before, and D is not memory safe. It has some helper-type features, but at the end of the day it is still C-like.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not if you opt in it. You can even put @safe: in the beginning of your D source code, then you'll have a memory safe D (you have to opt out by using @trusted then @system).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Alright, I'll actually dive into the research again...

Oh, I see, D is garbage collected, so really it's more like Java or Python. Maybe that's what I'm remembering. Also, @safe code sounds like it's pretty limited - far more limited than non-unsafe Rust.

Basically, if a language had been Rust before Rust showed up, Rust would have been a non-event. They solved a problem that was legitimately open at the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I mean, that's just my interpretation. I don't think it's a stretch though, switching to memory safe languages like rust has been pretty big recently.

How did you interpret the comic?

[–] sukhmel 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I should have added a '/s', but I thought it is somewhat obvious, it really reminds of all the 'git gud at C instead of doing Rust'

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, hard to tell without the /s unfortunately.