Re:Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python
by capableweb on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @03:18AM
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Ok? I've seen projects go pear-shaped in probably 20 different programming languages at this point, and I guess after a certain point of experience, you start to realize that failures seldom have to do with the programming languages themselves, and more about the people actually writing and managing the code (and everything else around development).
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Re:Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python
by TylerE on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @03:23AM
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When the 3 biggest disaster projects I've ever had to touch were all in PHP, I choose to believe that is a trend.
Yes, you can write bad code in any language.
PHP makes it hard NOT to. The footguns are all sitting out in the open, loaded, and the safeties are off.
Re:Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python
by capableweb on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @04:23AM
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Well, if you're not interested in factual discussions and you simply "choose to believe trends", all bets are off since you're pulling in your feelings about a programming language into your arguments. Hope all goes well for you anyway!
As a counter-point, the biggest disasters I've seen has been involving either C++ or C#, but in the end I think the reason they were disasters were because of the programmers (and their ego) rather than the programming languages they worked with. C++ is plenty open and without safeties, but that doesn't mean you have to use it like that.