• Ajen@sh.itjust.works
      242·
      2 days ago

      The unicyclist on the left is saying the bicyclist is only riding a bike because they don’t have enough skill for a unicycle. The unicyclist on the right is saying they can’t learn to ride a bike because they’ve spent too much of their life riding a unicycle. It’s a dig at people who don’t want to switch to memory-safe languages like rust.

      • lad@programming.devEnglish
        18·
        2 days 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)

        • Ajen@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          2 days 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?

          • lad@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            I should have added a ‘/s’, but I thought it is somewhat obvious, it really reminds of all the ‘git gud at C instead of doing Rust’

      • stingpie@lemmy.world
        15·
        2 days ago

        I am both the left guy and right guy. If you can’t program without using a memory safe language, it’s a skill issue. But I also don’t want to switch to rust because I like the challenge of manual memory management. (Also rust’s syntax and semantics looks like it was designed by a monkey attacking a typewriter.)

        • Ajen@sh.itjust.works
          8·
          2 days ago

          I write C++ professionally. Saying it’s a skill issue doesn’t solve the problem. If a dev with 15+ years of experience still isn’t writing memory-safe C++ (ie. some of the people I work with), they’re not going to learn now.

          And if you’re a project manager and you choose to use C++ because your team says they like the challenge then you should be fired.

          Of course none of this applies to hobby projects…

          • stingpie@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 days ago

            Yeah, I’m not a model for good programing. I don’t program professionally, I just like challenging myself in my hobby projects.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 days ago

      I think it would be clearer if we saw the person on the bike pass by and the last panel was just the character laying on the ground