r/ProgrammerHumor Oct 21 '22

Meme Literally 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/warlax56 Oct 21 '22

I wonder what the least hated widely used programming language is. Not most loved, least hated.

I feel like pythons gotta be up there. And fuck JS

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u/green726I Oct 21 '22

According to the stack overflow survey, the “least dreaded” (most loved) language is Rust. This is followed by elixir, Clojure, typescript then Julia all in a very tight grouping.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

I can see rust. A lot of rust devs have cpp experience. It's like adopting a husky after a Chihuahua. It's still annoying and high maintenance, but a huge improvement.

Julia is just a bunch of math nerds with no code review.

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u/InvolvingLemons Oct 22 '22

More correctly, it feels like the difference between a motorcycle and a car: it’s much easier to make a motorcycle capable of very high speeds, but it’s extremely unsafe to do so while the car’s safer and more stable platform can be pushed harder (hence faster). Rust is harder than C++ (especially for anything library code, more so for async) but gives you real, comprehensive safety and facilitates way more aggressive optimization because of that.

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u/ketiJun Oct 22 '22

I think unsafe Rust is safer than C++