Completely agree. The refusal of us nerds to accept that our tools can be improved and replaced is a broken record that has been playing since the dawn of progr

Completely agree. The refusal of us nerds to accept that our tools can be improved and replaced is a broken record that has been playing since the dawn of programming. It reminds me of how assembly programmers rejected high level languages; even with the glaring historical repetition, we are unable to recognise our loyalty to all languages is irrational. It’s patently obvious C/C++ is just a bad choice for many tasks, particularly where security is so important. I’ve never heard someone who works with those languages agree. However - if you’re reading this and feeling vindicated in your particular language choice - be prepared to accept that the language you favour right now is already or will soon be in the same position. That’s progress. Even if you love Haskell or Rust or Scala or Ocaml, if you think it’s anything but a stepping stone in language development then you’re just as wrong as those defending C/C++. As far as programming languages are concerned, we still don’t know what we’re doing. If you have managed to be open minded about languages, then test yourself further by telling yourself that emacs/vim is a local optima and will be superseded by better programming tools, and you should be exploring IDEs and imagining what a world than doesn’t code in plain text could look like. Because typing coding in text form is almost certainly not the best way to write programs, any more than assembler was. Hard to accept, ain’t it?