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The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible (sh.itjust.works)
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also I just realized that Brazil did NOT make a programming language entirely in Spanish and call it "Si" and that my professor was making a joke about C... god damn it

this post is probably too nieche but I feel like Lemmy is nerdy enough that enough people will get it lol

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[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

It's pure money and capitalism and nothing else.

Companies don't pay for computation time and memory on customer devices.

Companies barely pay for computation time and memory on their devices.

So why should they care?

The only thing that could limit that would be if e.g. electricity was taxed really high, but then again, electricity isn't even what makes computation expensive. Hardware is much more expensive.

I'm glad Linux exists and it's still written in C.

While that's true of the Kernel, it's not true of other components. Gnome shell or Cinnamon, for example, are mostly JavaScript. Almost half of the KDE Plasma code is QML.

I want to be part of the solution and not the problem, but I understand survival and keeping a job is important to someone like you.

I'm sure, in your day job there's also things that don't work, things where corners are cut and things where you could do much better if you had infinite time, energy and budget. There's not a lot of people who leave work every day knowing that they performed absolute perfection every single day.

[-] DarkAri 1 points 4 days ago

I actually do try to do a good job, but it is hard.

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