Nate Cox @ natecox @programming.dev

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Gonna be hard to play that trumpet without lips.

You’re reading a lot into things I did not say.

An appeal to popularity without a critical eye on the impact of massive media spending is far more dangerous than what you’re accusing me of.

Do they? Or does spending millions of dollars campaigning simply effectively manipulate?

The media is a powerful tool, controlled basically exclusively by money.

I’m a California constituent, and the idea of Adam Schiff representing me over Katie Porter makes me physically ill.

doesn't that apply to elections where Dems out spend the opponents too

Yes. Yes it does. The idea that just because a democrat is doing the spending means it can’t be wrong is pretty silly.

Dems have a pretty lousy track record here, I’m still pretty salty about the DNC doing Bernie Sanders so dirty.

I’d like to go to the Philippines someday, and I really dislike the stereotypes presented that there could only possibly be one reason.

I’ve spent about a quarter of my life training in the martial art arnis; I’m knowledgeable enough that I have taught or helped to teach classes myself. I would love to go to the land where it was born and train with masters there… which just happens to be the Philippines.

I’m also a software developer by trade and have worked with a few people who my company outsourced from the Philippines. A couple of them have really been a delight to work with and I would really like to travel and hang out with them.

It’s irritating that I need to include a wall of text to justify that I may have a non creep reason to want to travel. Thanks a lot, actual creeps ruining things for the rest of us.

As my WW2 veteran grandfather used to say: “armpits and assholes”.

I want my ICQ and my IRCs and my “you’ve got mail” and my horrible screeching that means I will be online soon back.

I’m not even kidding. Give me back my 90s internet.

I remember. It is a very annoying and negative trait that the dev community can’t seem to shake, the insistence on making hating certain tech (or even just like coding styles in general) part of their whole identity.

I remember thinking Clojure was stupid and people who used it were stupid because all of my peers told me so and made fun of the parenthesis relentlessly. Then I grew up a little, read a Clojure book, and fell in love with it. Plus learning to code in a brand new way made me a better dev overall.

Eh, maybe my client just didn’t refresh it; I saw it from my inbox.

Yep. The job market isn’t as strong for rust, which is what that chart is showing you. Corporate acceptance != popularity.

Rust is #6 on the Stack Overflow developer survey in popularity. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023

Again, I don’t know why the community is insisting on making this a dick measuring contest for languages. People love rust. People love Java. I know people who still love Perl. I know one guy who really seems to look fondly on his Fortran days. they’re all fine.

Just be happy that someone is excited enough to write some code to make the fediverse a little more diverse and maybe cool.

Didn’t realize I didn’t write both of those, eh?

… lemmy has like 100 contributors listed on GitHub. Just looking at the contributors list for the sublinks api vs the Lemmy main project it seems like Lemmy has far, far more contributions.

I think competition is a good thing, I hope sublinks gets like all the users and contributors and a dozen more projects spin up in all the languages of the rainbow—especially given they should all be contributing to one big pool of shared content— but it’s worth at least staying grounded in reality when making claims about the projects.

It’s super, super silly to be reactively defensive of one project or the other here. It really feels like what some people actually want is yet another language pissing contest more than anything else. All the languages are fine.

Well, for one thing federated message boards are incredibly niche to start with, and the pool of people willing to work on one for free in their spare time is bound to be tiny aside from language concerns. I know we all want the fediverse to be the hot thing that everyone uses, but that ain’t reality.

I’m not exactly seeing a massive contributor pool for sublinks here either.

If you just never make any mistakes you’ll live a mistake free life.

It’s cool to like Java, I’m not hating on it, but it’s just silly to pretend that Rust isn’t popular today.

Rust is used in fewer corporate environments, no doubt there, the Java inertia is strong… but a glance at any moderately recent dev survey should indicate pretty clearly that Rust is on a lot of devs minds and is well received.

Of course, the DS games are filled to the absolute brim with meaningful, world-building lore. ES6 could really take from that example.

I’m not a huge mmo fan but I do like Final Fantasy 14, in part because the community is surprisingly friendly.

So yeah, I support “live service games attract bad communities, but sometimes they rise above that”.

Because this person is being weirdly obtuse and confrontational: no, that was not actually a quote from the article.

Yep, at least everywhere that I have lived.