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> And this is why people like me avoid ML based languages, type astronauts, and shiny new toys. There's nothing new or shiny about the ML family. And the grow
by biorach 3y ago
> And this is why people like me avoid ML based languages, type astronauts, and shiny new toys.
There's nothing new or shiny about the ML family. And the growing interest in ADT's is about their very real advantages in representing state and solving real problems in a less error prone manner than C
- vpastore 3y agoDon’t argue with him. He is just and old man doing what all old man do: find excuses to not learn new stuff and convince himself that he didn’t have to do it
- dcow 3y agoYeah I find it really hard to see how they're being charitable. Just an old fart arguing for the continued relevance of curmudgeon-y technology instead of actually responding to the points being argued. What people who still care about writing C are doing is starting to use tools to bring some of what Rust offers to C, because they acknowledge that avoiding entire categories of bugs is actually really good, despite which language you use. But... no mention of that here, it seems.