Mine is that the useState hook is an actual plague on the entire React ecosystem. Regardless of your opinions of React, if you wanna use something then use it right.
Current AI tools are excellent productivity and quality enhancers, but only for people who are willing to adjust their workflows and guide it to give good quality output.
The damage is done by Capitalism running the AI industry and the over financialization of the market.
Don’t be anti AI, be anti unregulated Capitalism.
I agree on their usefulness but as long as you don’t use local and open LLMs you are unfortunately part of the ecosystem that does the damage. Luckily open models are catching on and hopefully some reliable companies take up on this business model.
Java and JavaScript are blights and should never be used.
Modern Money Theory.
Only hill I am going to die on has nothing to do with programming. “Everyone in modern society needs therapy, the kind that heals, not the one that lays you on a couch and you get to vent and than you pay.”
For some venting can be the help because they have no one they can pass those words to in a confidential setting.
- C++ is an awful language overall.
- Linus is just some guy with good programming skills and not an authority over anything tech.
- There aren’t any good text editors in the wild. VSCode is awful apart from extension support. Kate is close to being perfect but lack of extensions are pulling it back. Vim, Helix, Emacs, NeoVim are all flex toys.
- AI bad
I like Nano :)
Upvoting because I disagree with every word of what you wrote.
That’s the point lol
Agree with half of that. C++ is last century stuff and should be replaced. Any new code in C and C++ is immediately a vulnerability.
Atleast C is easy to understand which makes it easier to find and fix vulnerabilities. C++ feels like it’s duct tape holding it together.
C is easy to understand and find vulns? AI is uncovering decades of vulns in C code that humans hadn’t seen since the code’s inception. And they aren’t logic errors but memory management errors. Not a single day goes by without a CVE in a C/C++ project about memory management.
Both languages are walking vulnerabilities.
React is absolute trash and people should stop using it
Typescript is not the devil
That’s not controversial in the slightest. Everyone agrees with these except maybe a few neckbeards living in the woods.
Wayland is not good.
Programming languages peaked with Lisp.
Alright. Let’s see you defend the opinion wayland is not good without asking an llm
I would tell you, if you didn’t directly go on the offensive and berate me for what? You thinking I’ll be using LLMs? No thank you. Go ask an LLM yourself.
Printers and fax machines are completely outmoded and should be removed from every environment.
Germany and Japan would like to have a word with you.
I definitely agree with fax machines, do you not feel that physical copies of things have value?
I disagree even with fax machines being removed. It’s a redundancy that doesn’t use the internet, but telephone lines, and as such has value.
Is there still an independent phone infrastructure though? In Germany at least, it’s all VoIP as far as I know, so Fax machines add very little redundance…
Firefox is a good browser
If a browser does not support unlock origin it is worthless. So Firefox wins by all opponents willfully exiting the race
This would not cause the reaction in the picture lol.
It’s the only non chrome browser
Well, there are forks of firefox like floorp, zen, waterfox, etc. but i guess they might still count as firefox, because they are forks and not built from the ground up, only using the gecko engine from firefox.
Safari? I’m not suggesting you use it, but it does exist.
We don’t acknowledge the existence of proprietary blobs here
It is though
is the comic gen ai?
No single letter variable names. Yes I also mean the
iinforloops you see in tutorials. Write out “index” or give it a more descriptive name. Doing the typing isn’t the hard part of programming, nor the most time consuming, so making it take a teeny tiny bit longer by having longer variable names is more than worth the value of variables the effortlessly describe themselves.line length is not that big of a problem anymore, we’re not on CRTs, people are regularly developing with 4k monitors, we don’t need to limit to 40 character lines but even still if you can’t possibly think of a way to break up that long of a line and the only thing you can think of to make it shorter is using over-acronymized variable names then you’ve already lost the plot somewhere
I disagree when it comes to standardized single-letter variable names. They’re invaluable when writing dense code for games or other math-heavy applications and you learn to recognize them very quickly.
So i for index in loops (and j, k for nested loops, but you’re almost always doing something wrong if you need them); x, y, z for position and h, w for size; r, g, b, a for color data, etc - you’ll immediately know what the variable is for at a glance even though it’s a single character.
Another benefit is that having related variables be the same character width keeps code visually aligned, which helps with readability.
I agree. Short, nonsensical, meaningless, artificial variable names make me think the person writing the code is a dinosaur from when they still had punch cards. Get with the times.
Java is overall a good language for getting things done, although not enjoyable to work with (thank god we have Clojure)
the language itself is good. The main issue is that the ecosystem and the designpatterns are so broken (i am looking at you, Robert “clean code” Martin).
My advice for anyone working with java: look at any other ecosystem how to work with designpatterns, and then come back to java and ignore everything the java community tells you about “good practices”.
Agriculture was a mistake. But not right now, I have lot of hunting and gathering to do
People in FOSS community (including users) nitpick way too much about eachother’s ethics and are mostly dictators so they expect everybody’s views to align with themselves and each sub-community/individual see themselves as the source of moral balance.
“oh no one of project XYZ maintainers doesn’t like trans people we should boycott the project and fork it into LibreLGBTQXYZ”
be professional ffs. See the project as the software and it’s technicality, art, science and engineering. we can’t be too picky about individual people’s beliefs and ethics especially in current situations.
“I will happily promote the project of a person who openly says people like me should be shot. What’s the problem?”
