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C evangelism is exhausting too. Maybe we can stick to discussing the merits of each language instead of complaining about how people with differing opinions mak
by ben0x539 6y ago
C evangelism is exhausting too. Maybe we can stick to discussing the merits of each language instead of complaining about how people with differing opinions make us feel.
- up2isomorphism 6y agoActually I never see any occasion that a C guys jump into a well establish project and ask them to rewrite that in C. And TBH I rarely see other popular language did the similar things either, including very popular ones like python, Java or Go. And you even observe there is thing called "C evangelism" actually exists?
- ben0x539 6y agoYeah? Check out any very public discussion of Rust and to a first approxiation there's always gonna be someone talking about how we should all just be using C instead. It's also not hard to find instances in open source projects of people ascribing ulterior motives or brain damage or ineptitude or whatever to anyone using another programming language. They don't call it C-lioning for nothing :^)
- up2isomorphism 6y agoCan you give an example instead of just describing something rarely happened? For rust this is certainly the case, demonstrated by this thread and almost any other thread about rust, it is . TBH it is a pattern to see title "fastest xxx written in rust". C programmers do not have the tradition to ASK other people to write something in C, they WRITE something in C. That's the real difference here.