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but programmers do not switch "en-masse". that's a HN bubble.
by lucyjojo 1y ago
but programmers do not switch "en-masse". that's a HN bubble.
- conorcleary 1y agoBootstrap and HTML5 had fanfare and cool gfx on launch so people on-boarded themselves real quick
- username223 1y ago"Programmers" exist on a (not always "the") spectrum. At one extreme, there are frontend developers changing JS/Ruby frameworks every few months. New stuff is fun to play with. At the other, there's there's Tony Hoare's quip that "I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran." (https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/scientific-computings-future-can-any-coding-language-top-a-1950s-behemoth/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/scientific-computing...). In 2025, quite a few of the numerical routines powering LLMs are built on top of BLAS, LAPACK, and other frightening FORTRAN IV code that shouts at you using very short words like SGEMM and DGESV. It's a big tent; get comfortable.
- mlhpdx 1y agoJust like CEOs…