• Ajen@sh.itjust.works
      332·
      2 个月前

      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
        21·
        2 个月前

        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)

        • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
          17·
          2 个月前

          Yeah, Rust is simply the big one right now. It could just as easily apply to people in the 1960’s who didn’t want to adopt structured programming, or a compiler at all.

          • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldOP
            5·
            2 个月前

            I personally prefer the memory safety tools offered by D over Rust. D also doesn’t come with const by default, and you can even opt out of the RAII stuff a certain graphics driver developer boasted about in the Linux developer mailings (RAII can be a bad for optimization).

            • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
              9·
              2 个月前

              I feel like this has come up before, and D is not memory safe. It has some helper-type features, but at the end of the day it is still C-like.

              • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldOP
                3·
                2 个月前

                Not if you opt in it. You can even put @safe: in the beginning of your D source code, then you’ll have a memory safe D (you have to opt out by using @trusted then @system).

                • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
                  5·
                  2 个月前

                  Alright, I’ll actually dive into the research again…

                  Oh, I see, D is garbage collected, so really it’s more like Java or Python. Maybe that’s what I’m remembering. Also, @safe code sounds like it’s pretty limited - far more limited than non-unsafe Rust.

                  Basically, if a language had been Rust before Rust showed up, Rust would have been a non-event. They solved a problem that was legitimately open at the time.

        • Ajen@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          2 个月前

          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
            3·
            2 个月前

            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
        27·
        2 个月前

        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
          10·
          2 个月前

          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
            4·
            2 个月前

            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
      5·
      2 个月前

      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