Linux, operating system of the wokies.
I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about.
I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race.
It’s the only other language that Linux is allowing??? What the fuck is this guy cooking in his rv because I’m gonna buy some.
I’ve written websites on Linux. I’ve written Java, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, and Python on Linux. It fucking comes with Python and Ruby interpreters. Most environments are way easier to set up than Windows. I’ve been writing code on Linux for 10 fucking years what the fuck is this guy talking about?
Linux from scratch essentially requires Python, Perl, etc. to build: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter02/hostreqs.html
The Linux kernel shows a little Python and Perl in the GitHub repository: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Picking one repo fork out of Linux’s git tree (before everything is merged into linux-next), we can see other languages, such as C++, contribute to various components of Linux: https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux
The kernel repository includes a number of configuration and debugging tools in various scripting languages, but these aren’t build inputs for the kernel itself.
rust takes AGES to compile literally anything. also the compiler on i686 requiring SSE2 instructions is a massive thorn in my side as a old computer user and is the primary driver of my hatred of rust lmao. it gets in my way quite a lot since rust has creeped its way into a lot of open source projects these days
REAL
Rust tends to break or not work entirely outside of modern PCs running Linux or Windows and this also annoys me a lot lol, this is the reason we don’t have Firefox on 32-bit PowerPC machines either :(
You can’t even build Rust on machines with less than 4 GB of main memory at this point
Also suffers from the C++ problem of being so overcomplicated that independent implementations are extremely difficult to write
Deeply unportable language pretending to be a new operating system
Rust is lovely to program in (IMO), but another problem is packaging. Rust basically statically links everything and it makes it an incredible pain for distributions to package individual rust libraries and applications properly. It is one of the most frequent complaints I see scrolling up the screen among contributors on #gentoo-chat.
another issue with the static linking is the larger binary sizes it causes, meaning more of my precious disk space is wasted!!! another big issue on extremely resource limited systems such as 90s equipment with hard drives measured in hundreds of megabytes. i have gentoo running on a OG pentium (coz its one of the few distros left that truely supports it, via their i486 branch) and i have a dedicated hard drive for all the package management files and other caches portage uses lmao
also the compiler on i686 requiring SSE2 instructions is a massive thorn in my side as a old computer user
My comrade, tell me what old stinky i386 CPU you use!!
a 80386, multiple 80486’s, a pentium-133, a pentium2, and two non-sse2 pentium4s. and they all have useful purposes for various things. things you cant do with an emulator
old
stinky
now look here buddy
modern tech delenda est
Ok asshole so switch to C. Nuthin wrong with that.; except if you don’t understand how restricted void pointer pointers work like a dumb woke lefty.
We are this close to hearing a rant about how sum types facilitate the representation of GENDER IDEOLOGY in computer systems and I cannot wait for that moment
