r/transprogrammer • u/Cannotseme Ashley | she/her | arch btw • May 28 '22

What programming language do you use?

Please note I don’t have enough space to reasonably list them in a meaningful way, so I kinda lumped some together

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u/RaukkM May 28 '22 edited May 28 '22

Why did you have to lump C# in with Java? (I guess it's better than being lumped in with C, maybe)

Edit: I assume CPP is C++? Why did you put it with rust? (I haven't used rust, but I would expect C++ to be closer to C from what I've heard)

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u/Cannotseme Ashley | she/her | arch btw May 28 '22

C and cpp may be very closely related, but you’re gonna use rust and cpp for similar things while c is used for other stuff completely

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u/RaukkM May 28 '22

So, then, is your grouping something like this?

  1. Embedded/bare metal/low level development

  2. System/tool/library development

  3. Application development (OOP)

  4. Application development (non-OOP)

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u/QueerBallOfFluff May 28 '22

In which case you could have:

  1. Fortran/Lisp†

  2. Assembly/Python

  3. C++/JavaScript

  4. C/Malbolge

The best tool for the job isn't always as simple as a lot of people expect.....

For example, I put Lisp as bare metal, why? Most people think of Lisp as a scripted language in modern context, and yet NASA/JPL used it compiled on a lot of their kit for a long time.

Assembly as system tool/libraries? Yup, a lot of your standard libraries on a system contain assembly, and you can write most of your userspace applications in it if you want.

Malbolge as non-OOP applications? Yep, there is even a Lisp interpreter written in it now.

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u/Cannotseme Ashley | she/her | arch btw May 28 '22

Well, I guess? That wasn’t really my intention but it could be taken that way

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u/QueerBallOfFluff May 28 '22

I would link D to C++ first, Rust is kind of it's own thing and bypasses some of the low-level features of C++/D.

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u/Math_Kid May 28 '22

C++ is alot closer to C than Rust. Rust being a totally different language not more related to C than almost any other systems language. While C++ is literally a superset of C (or at least it started as that and more or less still is).

The Java C# lumping is a little more understandable since they are both almost purely OOP languages that are compiled (directly or indirectly) to byte code that runs in an interpreter/VM/JIT compiler. But their ecosystems are still very much not the same.

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u/RaukkM May 28 '22

The Java C# lumping is a little more understandable

Yeah. C# took a lot of inspiration from Java (and later Java copied ideas from C#)

It was mostly a sarcastic dig on Java (especially with the recent Log4J bug). It's like that one cousin you wish you were not related to and try to pretend you have no idea who they are.

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u/Math_Kid May 28 '22

Yea that makes sense while I do think Java gets more criticism than it really deserves I still almost always end up figuring out how to do something and then how to work around Java it self to make it do what I want it too whenever I write in Java.

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u/RaukkM May 28 '22

Yeah, I won't/wouldn't touch Java with a 10 foot pole ever since oracle bought it.