I have met a couple of them in real life, and a few I have met online. The sample is not significant enough to draw any conclusions about their point of view and background.

I am more than interested in your opinions about the personality and political makeup of people who express this type of pro-C bigotry.

  • lembas@lemm.ee
    25·
    27 days ago

    It’s no different from anyone else with arbitrary, narrow-minded views. People like that, whether they realize it or not, don’t believe in the intrinsic value of personhood.

    This extends to their view of themselves and creates a need to feel valuable for some other reason. So they create a narrow idea of what it means to be good and valuable and it just so happens to align with their own traits, interests, and beliefs.

  • AlternateRoute@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    27 days ago

    Many programmers that work in Low level languages like Assembly or C regard high level languages as easy or slow and thus tended to dis them.

    John Carmack (Doom, Quake engine, considered an amazing programmer) Best Programming Language has a wider appreciation of IDEs and Languages.

    • KittenBiscuits@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      27 days ago

      I took an assembly language course once. You know those merge games where you eventually get to double or quadruple your producer’s output? Coding in assembly feels like being stuck on 1x, where you have to generate all the basic stuff first, and then build on it, then build on it some more. It takes forever.

      I liked understanding the why behind it. But I appreciate other languages that are more accessible.

      • AlternateRoute@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        26 days ago

        Yep, it can also be the answer to getting insane performance gains for extremely specific functions / calculations.

        The reality of life is the higher level languages let you get more done with fewer errors but with less potential performance… You can only optimize python so much. Some newer languages like Rust try to balance the two but often make things more complex.

  • BmeBenji@lemm.ee
    15·
    26 days ago

    “First we get rid of strict typing. What’s next, setting a boolean variable equal to a string?!?”

    If you look back at the arguments against interracial marriage, they mirror almost all of the arguments against gay marriage to the letter. Some people are convinced that their world as it exists when they come of age to participate in it is the way it should always be. So my bet is that their deal is they don’t want to learn anything new. Learning can be hard and it’s not always fun to learn and more importantly the global capitalist society constructed for us is not conducive to learning so people are greatly encouraged NOT to learn.

  • sudo42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    26 days ago

    Very few people have a truly diverse software experience base. Many humans without a large, diverse experience base have trouble imagining there are problems outside their own experience.
    There are millions of different problems that need software solutions. People with limited experience have opinions as to the “best” software.
    People with large, diverse experience bases tend to be a bit more circumspect and can understand there is no single best answer. The “best” software for a given task depends on many things, including the problem, the schedule, the availability of resources, etc.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    26 days ago

    They see the scale of high-level to low-level languages. They see that C is on the human-practical low end of this scale. They ascribe value to being on the low end of the scale. Tada! C is now objectively™ the best language!