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That's because programmers in 2006 didn't understand programming. They didn't understand how to make their software better. Real programming means writing you
by harshreality 2mo ago
That's because programmers in 2006 didn't understand programming. They didn't understand how to make their software better.
Real programming means writing your own javascript glue, pulling in hundreds of supply-chain-compromised js libraries that you never inspect or profile, and running the whole thing in a browser engine, while making sure to store all state in the cloud.
The modern breed of programmers who don't understand programming have switched from C and C++ to Rust and Go, so they're on the right track of using more resources to improve the developer and user experience, but they haven't gone nearly far enough. They still do dumb things like write efficient code, and profile and put effort into reducing binary and resident size. They should trust in javascript and the browser and the internet, like all good programmers do.
Zig programmers have completely lost the plot. They're of the type that tries to write "hello, world" manually rather than pulling in a third party library so they can efficiently call helloWorld(). Writing single-binary apps that fit on a floppy? Who even cares? What even is a floppy? How do they call themselves programmers without css and advertising telemetry?
- pelagicAustral 2mo agousername checks out
- jijji 2mo agorust programs are a lot of times faster and orders of magnitude safer than C and C++ counterparts... where is your data to support your assertion that rust programs use more resources than C and C++ programs?
- player1234 2mo ago[dead]
- lp4v4n 2mo ago>rust programs are a lot of times faster [...] than C and C++ counterparts Troll post? Or has fanboyism really gone this far?
- mhh__ 2mo agoIt's often basically true though - the guarantees that rust can make wrt to lifetimes and memory allocation clearly enable programs to allocate less and be more aggressive with what they do allocate (all while being a fairly high-level language - I don't know if most rust programmers actually know what memory safety is at this point) I'm really not a huge fan of rust as a language but it is clearly delivering results in that e.g. I find myself actively hoping that people rewrite web tooling in rust and so on. C++ is a mess that should be allowed to die.
- hulitu 2mo ago> it is clearly delivering results Yeah, there are some results in Firefox and some results in Mesa and some results in the linux kernel, but that's about all.
- pjc50 2mo agoRust is much less likely to have heap leaks.
- miah_ 2mo agoSome programmers import a sarcasm library while others could write their own.
- pelagicAustral 2mo agoTruly poor quality bait here.
- cm2187 2mo ago2026 programmers also look down on 2024 programmers, these guys didn't understand you can get an intern to vibe code the hole thing in a week and run it in kernel mode on half of the machines in the world the following week (after another mandatory reboot).
- dzonga 2mo ago2006 programmers - smooth brained - they don't understand now you can just have an 'agent' code for you using piles of JS and massive dependencies. if the app breaks then the agent can fix it for you.
- vendiddy 2mo agoDang... I use zig at work to write single binary apps and I know what a floppy is. I feel personally attacked.