I would have used the example:

string nigger = "Nigger";
int faggot = 0xFA6607;

Node conquered the attention of soyboy programmers....but not much else.

Dynamic languages are for niggers? wtf, I hate dynamic languages now...

Continually asking people to come over and walk you through shit without you trying at all makes me want to bash a fucking hole into your face.

Seems like you're the victim of diversity hires.

... make sure you understand how to google questions you have, look through the code repository, or look at the other projects

If anything, that sounds like having very low standards. I would even let such people use a butter knife, let alone a compiler.

ESR is a confirmed brainlet.

If it looks like a tail and acts like a tail -- it must be a tree.

How can one line of code cripple a CPU?

Very easily.

... back when Windows 3.0 existed you could freeze Windows by just going into an endless loop
... But we are in 2019 now this should not be an issue!

Nothing has changed since then. See: The Halting Problem.

It demonstrates some real ignorance of computer science to believe that the simple progression of time can solve unsolvable problems...

I just like the fact this image seems to shit on them both equally, as a critique of the absolutism some people have. I found it in a slide deck from a talk given by the author of Lua.

I want to aid in the decentralized networking but I'm still working on getting into a position to be a good help

See you in about 5 years.

https://imgoat.com/uploads/cbe3365e6a/221357.jpg

Using regex for a simple pattern you know at compile-time is a lousy way to do it. Checking if a char is an ASCII letter can be done in 3 instructions in C: https://godbolt.org/z/HMvLLC . Using regex would be hundreds.

His job is basically taking advantage of the internal power struggle in corporations to help bean counters make themselves look indispensable so they can get promotions and pay raises. In exchange for large consulting fees.

As someone who's been programming for 20+ years, as soon as he starts talking my eyes start rolling. I've never seen such an obviously inept, over-inflated windbag. It's actually quite disgusting how seriously he takes himself for how little skill he has.

Because the good programmers know enough to know they want nothing to do with such a burden. So it's always the naive retards who have everything to prove that end up running things. I've seen it countless times. 90% of open source is absolute dogshit unfortunately.

and its in productions on 1000s of devices and services

1000s is jack shit for software. That doesn't prove anything.

Almost no one is using Tcl to write new stuff. It's a legacy language.

Scripting languages are fine......for scripting. They only become a problem when people try to write huge, structured programs with them.

lol, Tcl is about as uncool as it gets. It's a completely dead language.

Javascript was underrated, until Node became so fad

No it wasn't. That was just dumb shit hipsters said. JavaScript is not far behind PHP in the list of most amateurish (original) language designs. They've both changed a lot since, but neither has fully shed it's original cancerousness.

None of those bullet points are compelling omissions at all. I want to say "Plan Nine is overrated", but it's not even that. No one gives a fuck about it except Rob Pike and a few ass kissing neckbeards.

Martin Fowler specializes in extracting consulting fees out of clueless executives, not software. He's been pumping out low quality trash articles for decades.

I've avoided using the word "elegance" ever since the CoffeeScript developers took to using it (and many others after them). It seems to be a catch-all term used to justify design choices in entirely subjective terms.

Languages are a human interface, so some degree of subjectivity is fair enough, but prioritizing eye candy over technical merits to logical extremes just produces awful languages like CoffeeScript. Some of it is good -- but as a sum of parts it's just an unreadable mess.

I've noticed another hipster trend lately around "safety". Rust people drone on and on about this like it will somehow turn bad programmers into world class experts. Memory safety is a good thing and compiler tracked object lifetimes are useful, but the Rust toolchain has so many other problems that it's basically unusable in the niches where it makes the most sense. Not to mention that its killer feature exists mostly for performance reasons (vs. using garbage collection) and yet its performance is extremely underwhelming.

Maybe a better measure would be "minutes to install on my favorite POSIX system"?

Sure, that's another metric with value, but it probably has a lot of overlap with the interpreter/stdlib size.

mksh static is 178k on linux.

mksh conforms to the POSIX sh spec, so I consider it included by the sh bullet point. Likewise for the other 20 or so POSIX compatible shells.

That's a very long list that includes Fortran, Ada, etc - any my favorite, Nim

That seems like a pretty short list to me. Nim gets it's well-defined ABI by virtue of compiling to C. Do they guarantee ABI stability?

Anyway, the overarching point of my comment was that most people overlook portability/size/stability when choosing a language, in favor of dumb hipster shit like "elegance" or "popularity".

Title should be changed to "why you shouldn't take career advice from low IQ, bucktoothed niggers".

Specified by an open standard (POSIX) with about 20 different implementations (50 points):

☑ sh ☐ All the others

Guaranteed to be installed by default on any POSIX system (20 points):

☑ sh ☑ awk ☐ All the others

Lua is a good alternative to Python for uses where you can afford the cost of garbage collection. The standard library is tiny by comparison, but there are tons of third-party libraries and the binary distro is about 150 times smaller than Python.

tl;dr: Jew holds a fund raiser for a Python open source library and gets $28,000. Wants another guy to implement all the feature work for free and is paying himself the whole $28K for "documenting" the other guys features. Also claims that "most of it" went to taxes, despite taxes being a percentage.

Oy veyyyy, the goyim are trying to hold me to account after I took their ez money.

The post was about NPCs and bugmen normies on hacker news. Since this is v/programming and hacker news stupidity often gets posted here.

Didn't think I'd have to spell it out for you.

Here I am on Voat, yes...

Pretty weak attempt at trolling, mate.

Yeah, I meant to link to this. I was just referring to the extreme levels of NPCism in the comments. They're taking it way too seriously considering it's just the latest viral marketing fad and most of the "user" engagement there is actually bots. Imagine being such a bugman that you actually think Instagram is relevant or interesting.

3.8 year old account

thinks that fact equates to not being a retard, despite hard evidence to the contrary

...

no its uses a compiler to send instructions to the CPU

LOL!

You couldn't code your way out of a paper bag.

You can only downvote equal to your CCP, you dumb nigger.

I suggest staying out of /v/programming -- since you clearly have no clue what you're talking about. You're a confirmed brainlet.

So why are my comments still at -1? It's because it was you the first time, you dumb nigger.

I don't care about you downvoating my throwaway account, but you should feel like a real cunt for getting that butthurt.

It was you.

It's pretty obvious you're the one who just went through my entire post history downvoting everything. How pathetic of you. Is this because of your massive insecurity of being a brainlet?

https://magaimg.net/img/7un6.jpg

"P.S.: Before you accuse me of racism, I would like to highlight the fact that I'm an actual Jew."

There is nothing more racist than to pull out the Jew card, as if merely being a Jew made you better, more pure, less guilty, than anyone else.

lol! This thread is ripe for trolling, even if it is 3 years old.