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Paraphrasing you slightly: > I struggle to take anyone very seriously that expresses a profound negative opinion about [a language that] is still so ubiquitous
by TazeTSchnitzel 2y ago
Paraphrasing you slightly:
> I struggle to take anyone very seriously that expresses a profound negative opinion about [a language that] is still so ubiquitous and […] the person expressing this [probably] uses somewhere in their stack
Are you saying that because C is popular and widely used, someone can't credibly hold a negative opinion on it? Are we required to think highly of things because they are popular?
- JohnMakin 2y agoIt’s very interesting you find my comment as prescriptive when I’m merely pointing out that C has historically been a good tool. In this person’s opinion, it sounds silly when people try to tear it down, often with some agenda. I mentioned Rust because it often seems to come from a very passionate camp there (again, cool! nothing wrong with that). As I said, programming languages are tools, some tools are good for one job and not another, and prescriptivist talk about such things I immediately tune out and cannot take very seriously. Luckily my opinion doesn’t matter and can be ignored.