Nov 8, 2026, 7:27 AMDissing C and praising Rust/Go is not about languages.
It‘s people saying: „Terrible people from the past did not provide what we need now. Suckers. Lets burn all this old stuff down!“
Which I totally understand.
Why? Because my generation felt the same about tech stuff in the 80s and 90s. It was all shit and needed to die!
Just stop whining and do it! If you do it right, the next generation will complain about it in 20 years.
Nov 8, 2026, 8:31 AM@icing I don't quite agree. I remember this as people building something new, to see if they could and to see how far it could go, not as a burning down of things. I don't remember any particular anger at existing things not providing things we needed.
Nov 8, 2026, 10:14 AM@srtcd424 @icing Right, the Windows diss did happen, I remember that. And commercial Unices also were a thing, true. Xenix I don't remember personally, but I have not terribly fond memories of HP-UX, which we renamed HP-SUX. And SunOS 5 (aka Solaris 2) was weird in places, such as NIS+, which was terrible.
@icing tbf i hated c++ in the 90s
Nov 8, 2026, 9:48 PM@Kierkegaanks I still hate C++. I think one has to. I haven‘t seen any good C++ code where I‘d think „Oh, this is elegant!“ Nada.