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At least a few of us developers don't use c/c++...

I'm only an amateur, but I doubt there are string players that "learn" equal temperament. I have no idea how I would find 440 * (2^(1/12) ^ n) Hz, for any n not a multiple of 12, i…

I hear you. People keep saying Spanish is an easier language than English, but yesterday I pulled up an article written in Spanish and I couldn't even read the first word.

Is there a single statement about C# in this piece that isn't a complete falsehood?

Why do you much prefer func changeName(p *Person) { p.firstName = "Bob" } to void changeName(ref Person p) { p.firstName = "Bob"; } ?

Yep. His claims about C# are so egregiously wrong that the entire piece can safely be dismissed.

I had the same problem with Go. For years I couldn't figure out what I was doing to offend people.

"( avx, Intrinsics, etc ... )" I have to give you credit for trying to apply the Rule of Three to a single criticism. Of course, I don't really understand how the fact that someone…

Is this a parody? Most of the Go players I've met are thoughtful and well-adjusted - they don't resemble this stereotype at all.

Why are you using "American milk chocolate" as a synonym for "Hershey's"?

""Paella" in the US (and much of non-mediterranean Europe) generally implies shellfish." Interested in how you came to that conclusion. All of the restaurants near me that serve pa…

"The proof that JS is actually pretty good is that it has been used to build so many things." [French Narrator] 5 minutes later... "I'm not using popularity as the metric."

Math classes are taught by the Math department.

Sigh. Yes, tell us more about why the style you've written 3-4 orders of magnitude more code in is inherently simpler/clearer.

This argument doesn't really have any content, because people who advocate for programming with higher order functions would not agree that such code is more clever; in fact, they …

True. Of course, that only scratches the surface of why it's a terrible job. In many locales, policies that cover commercial driving are prohibitively expensive, and the majority o…

Suicides decreased in 2020, btw: https://www.axios.com/suicide-decreased-in-2020-pandemmic-me... .

I can't help but think that if we all had that mindset, we'd still be programming in assembly. People who don't care enough to criticize the status quo don't put forth the effort n…

Indeed. Ironically, the only reason we're in a thread talking about Go is years of "Go is so much simpler than language X" propaganda, without which it would have never gained such…

It seems like there are basically two types of programmers: those that think that programming languages are "done," and those that disagree. To the former type, any modern language…

What a great quote. Next time my wife criticizes me, I'm going to say, "Babe, there are only two kinds of men: the ones their spouses complain about and the ones that aren't marrie…

Since simpler languages are easier to work with, let's just remove goroutines and channels from Go. Then all these problems will just go away.

"A simple language is easier to read." "A simple language builds simple software". It's become a cliche to bring up brainfuck here, but it really is a direct refutation of these id…

What would you all recommend for someone who just wants to maximize the performance of his IDE (.NET in Visual Studio)? I get that going 3900X will give me the fastest compile time…

Do you find it easier to read or to understand ? I find Brainfuck code incredibly easy to read (there are only eight characters/commands in the language!) but almost impossible to …