Your regular reminder: "I don't like it" and "it's bad" are two entirely different statements. Both could be true, or just one, or neither, but they are different things, and one in no way implies the other.
To have an opinion is good in politics but as we are in a tech industrie we only can like best practises. Lot of source code is widley used and successful in production, although the code IS bad. #wordpress 😉
@webfan Yes, but there are also objectively bad movies that are still popular, or at least sell a lot of tickets.
And you can aesthetically dislike a language without the language being intrinsically bad. I don't like Python, plenty of people dislike PHP, lots of people dislike Haskell, etc. But none are "bad" languages.
I'd argue that in 2024, C is an objectively bad language because it's so unsafe and unfeatured. Yet it's still what runs the world. (Explains a lot...)
Melanie Wehowski
Als Antwort auf Larry Garfield • • •Larry Garfield
Als Antwort auf Melanie Wehowski • • •@webfan Yes, but there are also objectively bad movies that are still popular, or at least sell a lot of tickets.
And you can aesthetically dislike a language without the language being intrinsically bad. I don't like Python, plenty of people dislike PHP, lots of people dislike Haskell, etc. But none are "bad" languages.
I'd argue that in 2024, C is an objectively bad language because it's so unsafe and unfeatured. Yet it's still what runs the world. (Explains a lot...)