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That’s an insightful comment, but there is a whole universe of programmers who never have to directly work in C/C++ and are productive in safe languages that ca
by icameron 2y ago
That’s an insightful comment, but there is a whole universe of programmers who never have to directly work in C/C++ and are productive in safe languages that can’t segfault usually. Admittedly we are a little jealous of those elite bitcrashers who unlock the unbridled power of the computer with C++… but yeah a lot of day jobs pay the bills with C#, JavaScript, or Python and are considered programmers by the rest of the industry
- kragen 2y agoYeah, I write most things in Python or JavaScript because it's much more practical.
- bluGill 2y agoBoth have strong limits for writing complex code. Typescript is one attempt of an answer because bad as javascript is for large programs the web forces it. I prefer a million lines of c++ to 100k lines of python - but if 5k lines of python sill do them c++ is way too much overhead. (rust likely plays better than c++ for large problems from scratch but most large probles have existing answers and throwing something else in would be hard)
- kragen 2y agoI agree with all of this.
- retros3x 2y agoMany devs are never even coming into challenging projects like that. For a large part of the dev community its just simple webapps for most of their professional life.
- kragen 2y agoThat was never a good strategy. Even before GPT-4 and Claude, those folks were losing their jobs to Wordpress, Google Sheets, Wix, SquareSpace, etc.