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Of course one doesn't have to program one's environment but I would never be on one where I couldn't.

• ogogmad 5y ago
  I think you misunderstood the parent commenter. He said that he hasn't programmed much in C, but that doesn't mean he hasn't done much programming altogether. He's wondering why you ever felt that programming in Linux meant you had to use C. Many of the Linux APIs are written in C but there are wrappers for countless other languages, no? Many Linux people like to use Python, for instance. Unfortunately, it's a slow language for all sorts of incidental but hard-to-fix reasons. This has led people to look for alternatives. I think Go is increasingly used as an alternative, but it lacks features like operator overloading which are a necessity in certain areas. There's JVM languages like Java, Kotlin and Scala as well. Nim is up-and-coming. Some people use functional languages like Haskell and Common Lisp. C++ is widely used but not much loved.
  • kreeben 5y ago
    Thx, yes I might have. I know enough about all of those languages that you mentioned to realize, as a c-sharper I have it good. Java is a bit too weird for me. Python a bit too slow. C++ too hard, Haskel too functional ;) I realize of course that not all Linux users are C programmers. Given the opportunity to transfer my C# knowledge over to Linux, I'll take it.