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An extremely crude comic about programming languages (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 21 points 2 months ago

It's a dig at people who don't want to switch to memory-safe languages like rust.

Now that's a stretch, it could be anything (no, it couldn't, although I think this may have application to some other pairs of languages)

[-] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, Rust is simply the big one right now. It could just as easily apply to people in the 1960's who didn't want to adopt structured programming, or a compiler at all.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I personally prefer the memory safety tools offered by D over Rust. D also doesn't come with const by default, and you can even opt out of the RAII stuff a certain graphics driver developer boasted about in the Linux developer mailings (RAII can be a bad for optimization).

[-] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 9 points 2 months ago

I feel like this has come up before, and D is not memory safe. It has some helper-type features, but at the end of the day it is still C-like.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Not if you opt in it. You can even put @safe: in the beginning of your D source code, then you'll have a memory safe D (you have to opt out by using @trusted then @system).

[-] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Alright, I'll actually dive into the research again...

Oh, I see, D is garbage collected, so really it's more like Java or Python. Maybe that's what I'm remembering. Also, @safe code sounds like it's pretty limited - far more limited than non-unsafe Rust.

Basically, if a language had been Rust before Rust showed up, Rust would have been a non-event. They solved a problem that was legitimately open at the time.

[-] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean, that's just my interpretation. I don't think it's a stretch though, switching to memory safe languages like rust has been pretty big recently.

How did you interpret the comic?