ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider [they/them]@hexbear.net to Programming · 11 months agoPeople will talk shit about PHP and then their language of choice will be javascriptmessage-squaremessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up125arrow-down1message-squarePeople will talk shit about PHP and then their language of choice will be javascriptScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider [they/them]@hexbear.net to Programming · 11 months agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-text
minus-square🏳️⚧️ 新星 [she/they]linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months ago come to issues of familiarity, not of complexity … They conflate the two issues Okay, but have you seen Objective-C++? You get two distinct syntaxes in one language that you can’t use interchangeably.
minus-squareScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider [they/them]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoI can’t think of any two compiled languages where allowing them to link against each other in a shared codebase would not balloon their complexity. So fair. I hope no one’s trying to do that without first being fluent in the two languages.
minus-square🏳️⚧️ 新星 [she/they]linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoFair, but the problem is that Objective-C itself has the same problem because of the design decision to make it a superset of C
Okay, but have you seen Objective-C++?
You get two distinct syntaxes in one language that you can’t use interchangeably.
I can’t think of any two compiled languages where allowing them to link against each other in a shared codebase would not balloon their complexity. So fair. I hope no one’s trying to do that without first being fluent in the two languages.
Fair, but the problem is that Objective-C itself has the same problem because of the design decision to make it a superset of C