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Seriously. There’s so many floating around. It feels like there’s a cycle of

Random programmer thinks xyz language sucks -> she/he makes a slightly different, slightly faster, slightly more secure version -> by luck this gains mass adoption-> random programmer thinks new xyz language sucks

I propose when the revolution comes and the last guillotine falls we decide a general-purpose programming language that coders should stick to. I vote Lisp or any of the dialects (scheme, clojure, racket), but i also feel something about the Julia language for scientific research. Maybe we can decriminalize using C. Absolutely ban and hunt down the use of any of the hipster languages teenagers are into these days.

Nim? Zig? Crystal?? I am absolutely losing my damn mind. It compiles to bytecode people. Make up ur damn minds. To jail with all of u

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

there are 28 coding languages

"We need to invent a universal language that brings all these together so everybody can just use one"

there are 29 coding languages

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

There's a lot of languages but people usually have a favorite that probably isn't very unique lol

There's no such thing as a universal language but we can build better languages (and operating systems) that dominate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I like visual basic. It was really easy to learn for loops with

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Not saying we invent one. I'm saying we choose one and proclaim it as the One True Language