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Like the TV series, some of its "fanbase" are a bit obnoxious and self-important. They're a bit like people who'll fight a Middle Ages worth of religious crusad
by BoxOfRain 5y ago
Like the TV series, some of its "fanbase" are a bit obnoxious and self-important. They're a bit like people who'll fight a Middle Ages worth of religious crusades over vi/emacs vs graphical IDEs or *nix vs Windows rather than just using what works best for a specific scenario.
The language itself is really cool, I'm a big fan even if I've not had many chances to write it professionally. It's a really well thought out language, I wouldn't use it in every single scenario but there's a lot of legitimate use-cases for it (especially if you need lots of performance but don't fancy the footguns of C++). The learning curve is quite steep but it's nowhere near as bad as some people make it out to be.
- bodge5000 5y agoI guess every language comes with its negative connotations. I've heard languages like python and lua referred to as "baby's first language" because they're compartively easy to start out with, C and C++ being for the kind of people who like to talk about how they use it more than they actually use it, the list goes on. And of course all of them will fight over the specifics (in the case of python, I've been guilty of this when it comes to tabs vs spaces).
- BoxOfRain 5y agoI agree although having said I think there's one exception to this rule which is Kotlin, I use it a lot but I've never heard of a dedicated Kotlin hater or evangelist.
- frenchy 5y agoThe difference is that normally when you make fun of a language like that, it's mostly a joke. You don't normally use it to completely dismiss a whole argument that could actually have real substance. The only other langauages I see people this with, are VB & PHP (for somewhat different reasons).