Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : unixl0rd
From : hollowone
Date : Tue Jan 09 2024 01:43:06

 un> Yup, Java was the first programming language they taught to us. I don't
 un> miss it at all.

Java as a programming language isn't bad at all.. but the toolset it comes with, and programming frameworks.. a fucking nightmare.

Unfortunately the same is happening to .NET. Instead of being crisp, consistent, integrated... it becomes more a community than a platform.

I'm not surprised that things like Rust, Go, Elixir, Crystal, Zig show up and become more and more successfully.

Once per decade somebody just needs to de-clutter the bloat!

Funny thing for me that I keep experimenting with new languages occasionally but then out of the sudden I keep coming back to C.

It's brutal, yet so simple and elegant.. if you know what you're doing and you know your compiler and OS/platform well! That's the only condition, which of course also terrifies many.

-h1

.... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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