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Drew DeVault @sir

The more I hear about a programming langauge, the less interested I am in it. Sexy programming languages are worse than boring programming langauges, sexiness is an indicator of immaturity

C and Go are good, and they're infrequently in the news because they're stable as fuck

May 16, 2018, 14:10 · Web · 4 · 10

@sir Well Rust is sexy and stable 🤔

@thog @sir (lol)

@kurisu @sir What have you against Rust, Steph? haha

@thog @sir nothing, but it's not stable.

@thog hahahahahahahahahaha 😂

@sir I think thog @thog wanted to say that the binaries aren't unstables

@Technowix @sir yeah but you know I'm the type of guys that would say that C is sexy and stable

@thog @sir @Technowix C *is* sexy and stable

@ky0ko @Technowix @sir (yes)

@ky0ko @Technowix @thog C isn't really sexy imo, but C code can be sexy

@ky0ko @Technowix @sir @thog are we all talking about the same C? :thonk:

@sn0w @ky0ko @Technowix @sir @thog up c down c left c right c?

@sn0w @thog @sir @Technowix @ky0ko

C is a good girl

@xj @sn0w @sir @Technowix @ky0ko she is my bf

@thog @xj @sir @Technowix @ky0ko

> she
> bf

...wait a minute :blobthinkingglare:

@sn0w @thog @xj @Technowix @ky0ko risky words on mastodon

@sir @thog @xj @Technowix @ky0ko C is a trap confirmed

@sn0w @Technowix @xj @thog @sir C is a transgirl and its writers just didn't know how to portray that properly >:( >:( >:(

@ky0ko @sir @thog @xj @Technowix oooh so that's why they named it SIGTRAP and not SIGBREAK or sth.

Now it all makes sense :whoa:

@sn0w @thog @xj @sir @ky0ko bf == (boyfriend && bestfriend)

@sn0w @ky0ko @Technowix @sir @thog

the *pointer makes it better

@sn0w @xj @sir @Technowix @ky0ko bf == best friend sorry cutie

@sir I have fun playing around with languages, especially unsatble and unproven ones because I find it fun.

If I was building a company I wouldn't use an immature language lightly.

@kurisu I find the software I'm working on more interesting than the language I'm writing it in, I don't really care about novel programming langauges (but I like programming languages which remove features found in other langs)

@sir well I'm pretty clearly the opposite of that

@kurisu @sir hehe I clearly like both types because each of those approaches has benefits and sometimes the one sometimes the other fits better

@sir @angristan I beg to differ. If Go was stable I wouldn't need to write this https://steelman1.gitlab.io/pages/software/2018/03/03/Building-IPFS-on-Debian-9.html

@sir @angristan updated link: https://steelman1.gitlab.io/software/2018/03/03/Building-IPFS-on-Debian-9.html

@steelman @angristan Go is not as stable as C, but it's more stable than most. Its updates are pretty conservative and infrequent

@sir +1 to bad we dont live near, we will be good friends :D