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It was best as a silly toy language in the 1990's...
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Real programmers are language agnostic. Anyways what's the project?
We're writing an online banking service entirely in brainfuck. Backend, frontend, even middleend if we have to
I enjoy the contradiction of middleend
The middlemiddle
E: My backend don't middlemiddle, it forks
It took me a solid half-dozen tries not to pronounce it "mid-leend." After that much effort, I decided to let my dumb brain win and go with it.
Would you take a Quake-like written in Pascal?
For something you're getting paid for, sure. But if you're contributing in your free time for fun or whatever, presumably you'd prefer to use a language you actually like.
Thought terminating sentence.
More like, no true scotsman
Real carpenters don't walk away from a job because the hammer is their least favorite brand.
their least favourite hammer brand:
Real carpenters bring their own hammer.
I once had a hammer head get loose and fly off the handle.
But if the screws are nails.
It can't be a programming humor post without somehow even more mind-numbing stuff in the comments. Just part of the fun
Yes and no. "Real" programmers care about engineering choices ; and JS is the cardboard of programming languages.
Perfect for packaging (which in this metaphor is UI), horrible for building a bridge with. And vice-versa, I wouldn't try and make amazon packaging out of reinforced concrete.
But for fun both bridge out of cardboard and packaging out of concrete might work, tastes differ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sorry, but Rust triggers me way too much.
the bash language server is in nodejs...
And it shouldn't
I always knew I am not a real programmer
Also real programmers have impostor's syndrome.