There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
โ Bjarne Stroustrup
True, but I see this quote repeated so often that it kind of bugs me. It seems to be used in a thought-terminating way. As if we shouldnโt criticize languages. As if they arenโt tools that are able to be improved upon, or theyโre all made equal. But Iโm sure Bjarne Stroustrup needs to fend off hostility and unfair criticism as much as any programmer with a successful language.
oh i never considered that reading of the quote
i read it as more: complaints about a language, particularly the amount of complaints, donโt mean it is a Bad Language that should be dropped in favor of something else
in fact the complaints validate that the language is being used by people, and thatโthe number of people actually using the language to Do Thingsโis imo a decent proxy metric for the usefulness of the language
so please complain about your languagesโ shortcomings! i hate so many things about terraform / sh / python / golang / java and will gladly rant at length, and then go right back to using them
except groovy
fuck groovy
