2026-10-25 05:49 UTC
Replies (13)
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@onlinepersona@programming.dev 2026-10-25 06:25
Agree with half of that. C++ is last century stuff and should be replaced. Any new code in C and C++ is immediately a vulnerability.
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@the_flying_pig@lemmy.world 2026-10-25 06:25
Upvoting because I disagree with every word of what you wrote.
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@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-25 08:18
I like Nano :)
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@olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-25 08:30
based
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@JackbyDev@programming.dev 2026-10-25 08:40
VSCode is like the worst fauxpen source ever.
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@im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 2026-10-25 08:41
Linus is just some guy with good programming skills I somewhat agree. Most celebrated personalities in tech aren’t programming geniuses - they were in the right area at the right time and had some luck. Zuckerberg is a good example. I think kernel maintainers and rendering engines (browsers and others) have a higher base skill level. Like some web developers are clever and some are stupid, but I don’t think there are stupid kernel maintainers. The thing with Linus is that he’s been involved, and at the pointy end, for decades. You or I may not agree with him on every issue, but you can acknowledge that he has experience and he has connections.
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@tomjuggler@lemmy.world 2026-10-25 08:50
That information about text editors is out of date - we now have Zed. Just ignore the “AI integration” bs, it’s entirely optional
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@UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 2026-10-25 09:33
Zed is actually a pretty good editor IMO. Miles ahead of Code at least
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@surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2026-10-25 12:30
Linus is just some guy with good programming skills and not an authority over anything tech. Isn’t he the authority that approves what gets into the kernel? Or used to be at least.
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@calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2026-10-25 13:36
I wouldn’t say that vscode is awful. It’s not good though. Even while being the best. To add: jetbrains IDEs are awful
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@marcos@lemmy.world 2026-10-25 16:23
Zed sucks in many of the ways that modern editors suck. Autocompleting on characters that appear in code, and autocompleting in a way that overwrites the code you have already written are two incredibly stupid decisions that put a mark over any tool that adopts any one of them. But then, Zed almost working, but in a way that still sucks was enough to motivate me into setting my Emacs properly, in a way that doesn’t suck. So Zed gave me a good editor.
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@richardisaguy@lemmy.world 2026-10-25 19:22
What makes you think C++ is awful?
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@explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-26 15:36
All authorities are just some guy with good programming skills. The giants on whose shoulders we stand were mostly rich guys who had the privilege of screwing around. I prefer the original definition of genius - not a quality that a person possesses, but an external spirit that comes and visits you.