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> All programming languages suck. I'm not sure this if is a contrarian opinion, but this is one of my biggest career takeaways. Every programming language I ha
by philwelch 5y ago
> All programming languages suck.
I'm not sure this if is a contrarian opinion, but this is one of my biggest career takeaways. Every programming language I have used for an extended period of time turned out to suck. Whenever I find a new programming language that doesn't suck, I end up using it enough to discover the specific way in which it sucks. So I've inferred that every programming language I haven't extensively used, and doesn't seem to suck, will just end up sucking in some way I will ultimately discover.
- ilyash 5y ago> specific way in which it sucks. This I don't have objective data but it seems that I'm reaching the "they did what?" pretty quickly when I read about yet another language. Don't need to start using it even.
- philwelch 5y agoThe good(?) news is that this has helped me get over my instinct of, "I don't want to use this language because it sucks". You want me to use Java? OK, as long as we're using Java in a situation where the specific way in which Java sucks is a smaller issue than the specific way in which any alternative language would suck.
- ilyash 5y agoResonates. I typically say that my programming language should just suck less than others for intended use cases.