Programming Language Debates

Discussions center on complaints, flamewars, and biases against popular programming languages, frequently quoting Bjarne Stroustrup's remark that there are only two kinds: those people complain about and those nobody uses.

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Eire_Banshee Sep 28, 2016 View on HN

What is it about programming that just causes people to constantly bash languages they don't use?

mtdewcmu Dec 13, 2013 View on HN

A language can't suck just because it isn't Haskell or ML.

alinajaf Nov 18, 2012 View on HN

Interesting to note how people without good programming languages rationalize things.

throwaway3306a Jul 18, 2024 View on HN

Don't blame bad tools on the language.

krapp Mar 5, 2015 View on HN

tldr: languages the author likes are good, languages the author doesn't like are bad.

_sh Aug 11, 2015 View on HN

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses" --Bjarne Stroustrup

"There are two types of programming languages: those everyone complains about, and those nobody uses."

vesak Jun 6, 2016 View on HN

You're not your programming language. When people are expressing distaste about a language, it's (usually) not an attack towards its users.

mirntyfirty May 24, 2022 View on HN

It seems as though HN likes certain languages but gets pretty negative about others.

fizx Oct 10, 2013 View on HN

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." -- Bjarne Stroustrup