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> It's controversial because of how he makes fun about the people using and promoting other languages, like Rust. I thought it was hilarious. But doesn't that

> It's controversial because of how he makes fun about the people using and promoting other languages, like Rust. I thought it was hilarious. But doesn't that completely ruin the point of the post? I agree with you that something feeling 'fun' is more personal, and that the criteria of what constitutes fun are up to the user. The author doesn't agree with that - you can either adopt the former point or promote the Right Way of having fun. Those snarky remarks made me put this blog into the second category. When you're so invested in your argument, even a fundamentally harmless post about having fun will get that language wars hit piece subtext. If anything, they seem more like desperate cheap shots than arguments. Other people, the NSA etc dislike unsafe-by-default code? Well, they're just authoritarian anti-fun ideologues! Rust users bring up some of the same criticisms I recall in the last paragraph? Well.. uh... that borrow checker, am I right?

indigoabstract 2y ago
I think he was just making fun of people who inflate the importance of their language and their way too much and it should be taken in that spirit. There are good reasons why all these new languages like Rust and Zig popped up in the last 10 years or so and started getting traction. Obviously a lot of people were unhappy having C/C++ as their only choice for performance focused or system level programming. At least in the games business it still seems to be doing well. But to get back to the point of the article, for fun solo projects, when the 'mood for coding' comes over, I may be biased, but I think C++ is still the best. It's like when building a prototype. You just want to test your idea and see how it looks and play with it and just worry about bugs and program correctness later. While coding it in Rust you'd have to spend extra time determining the correct memory ownership relations and that can break the flow. After programming for 20 years, it doesn't come nearly as often as it used to, but I still get that feeling from time to time.

indigoabstract 2y ago

I think he was just making fun of people who inflate the importance of their language and their way too much and it should be taken in that spirit. There are good reasons why all these new languages like Rust and Zig popped up in the last 10 years or so and started getting traction. Obviously a lot of people were unhappy having C/C++ as their only choice for performance focused or system level programming. At least in the games business it still seems to be doing well. But to get back to the point of the article, for fun solo projects, when the 'mood for coding' comes over, I may be biased, but I think C++ is still the best. It's like when building a prototype. You just want to test your idea and see how it looks and play with it and just worry about bugs and program correctness later. While coding it in Rust you'd have to spend extra time determining the correct memory ownership relations and that can break the flow. After programming for 20 years, it doesn't come nearly as often as it used to, but I still get that feeling from time to time.