The Two Worlds of Programming(baldurbjarnason.com)

13 pointsby HotGarbage4 miesiące temu7 comments

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-two-worlds-of-programming/

7 comments

kunley4 miesiące temu

Perhaps this submit deserves expanding a bit the title here on HN, as the current one doesn't tell much about quite interesting points the author is making

MichaelRo4 miesiące temu

Well, it's a skeptical take on AI so it will be downvoted to oblivion and buried.

DaleBiagio4 miesiące temu

This tension is as old as programming itself. Dijkstra and Hoare spent decades arguing for rigor.

Meanwhile C, JavaScript, and PHP, none of them designed for correctness, won the world. The languages that ship always beat the languages that are right.

LLMs just accelerated the pattern.

az09mugen4 miesiące temu

"There are 2 kinds of programming languages : the ones that everyone complains about and the ones that no one uses"

DaleBiagio4 miesiące temu

haha, where is that quote from? Fantastic

az09mugen4 miesiące temu

Apparently Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++ : https://bits-chips.com/article/challenging-c/

DaleBiagio4 miesiące temu

Appreciate you getting the source!