The Programming Language Food Chain

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A screenshot of a Twitter thread that layers two programming memes on top of each other. The bottom tweet, by 'I Am Devloper' (@iamdevloper), uses the 'No one:' format to mock Rust evangelism: 'No-one: Absolutely no-one: Rust programmers: you know this would be much simpler in Rust...'. The top tweet, a reply from 'Dev meme' (@devs_memes), escalates the joke. It says, 'Python programmers: Hold my beer', followed by 'C/C++ libs: *scream*'. This implies that Python, known for its simplicity and vast ecosystem of libraries often written in C/C++, is the ultimate layer of abstraction, using powerful but complex low-level libraries under the hood. The humor comes from the layered conversation: while Rust programmers are busy advocating for their language, Python programmers are casually using the very C/C++ libraries that Rust aims to replace, often without needing to worry about the underlying complexity

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Python's relationship with C++ is the ultimate senior dev move: take a notoriously complex and powerful tool, wrap it in a five-line script, and then act like it was easy the whole time

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Python's relationship with C++ is the ultimate senior dev move: take a notoriously complex and powerful tool, wrap it in a five-line script, and then act like it was easy the whole time
Anonymous

Python: “It’s just a quick pip install.” C/C++: *undefined symbol: panicScream()* Rust dev (from the corner): “Or - and hear me out - we stop FFI‐speed-running the SEV list and write it once in safe code.”
Anonymous

After 20 years of debugging segfaults and memory leaks, you realize the real undefined behavior was the Rust evangelists we met along the way - they'll find you even in discussions about Python's GIL
Anonymous

This perfectly captures the Rust community's well-earned reputation: while Python devs are busy wrapping C libraries with ctypes and dealing with segfaults in their native extensions, Rust evangelists appear like clockwork to remind everyone about memory safety and fearless concurrency - as if rewriting NumPy's 20-year-old battle-tested BLAS bindings in Rust is just a weekend project. The irony? Both communities are actually right: Python *does* scream at C/C++ libs when they misbehave, and it *would* be simpler in Rust... if you ignore the six-month learning curve, the compile times, and the fact that your stakeholders wanted this feature shipped last quarter
Anonymous

Nothing says “simpler” like replacing a flaky C extension with Rust, then shipping 18 platform‑specific wheels, a build.rs that summons LLVM, and one unsafe block that still calls the same screaming C API
Anonymous

Rust: Where 'much simpler' means trading C++ segfaults for borrow checker therapy sessions
Anonymous

Python dev: “it’s just a binding.” C++ lib: “it’s just UB.” Rust dev: “it’s just a rewrite.” PM: “it’s just not happening this quarter.”
Deleted Account 5y

Rust lol.
@Tenoooo 5y

Did not get it (
1. @karumsenjoyer 5y
  
  - Python programmer
  
  @xgoader 5y
  
  what's bad about being a python programmer?
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  bc you have to know more than just one lang
  
  @xgoader 5y
  
  that's ok, but I suppose you would be using only one, perhaps two, languages mostly
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  more like 5
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  or more
  
  @Rodney_GoMK 5y
  
  Because you did not get it
@xgoader 5y

why would you need to use so many languages in work?
1. Deleted Account 5y
  
  well, bash is necessary, python you need for cranking out a fast concept, and then a couple of langs you actually use for the project
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  example for those will be c++, glsl and lua if you do gamedev
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  you'll need glsl anyway, and I can only recommend lua if you're implementing mod support. Otherwise, omg, don't. And I've written games in pure python before which run …okay. Search for RTris or Dodge to Drums. The first is ancient and the second unfinished.
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  no lua is nice
  
  @saniel42 5y
  
  It's not mandatory
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  well, none of them are, you han use hlsl, you can even use java (like minecraft, but suffer from low perf)
  
  @saniel42 5y
  
  And why would you use lua in a small team, for example
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  you can give it to the game designers to make scripts for entities with it
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  if you're considering to use java, you might as well be using python
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  nah, it's still alot faster than py, but it still doesn't make sense for a game
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  I can't play minecraft on my laptop. I could if it were made with python, I betcha.
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  bro. no. - return must be the last statement in a function - there's no += or ++ - 0, 0.0 and "0" are all evaluated as true - not-equal operator is ~= - a={};a.field works, but {}.field doesn't - values are usually converted, but not in equality checks (which makes kinda sense, but still, implicit conversion bad) - surely other shit, but I gotta get to class now
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  3rd one is nice, basically a tradeoff between the best ternary and not using == in ifs
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  but overall all of the above can be forgiven for how tiny this thing is
@Rodney_GoMK 5y

Bc you: I will do it in lang A, it will be fast and simple Pm: i think you don't understand how we work
@xgoader 5y

ok then ;)
@anatoli26 5y

Just use rust
1. dev_meme 5y
  
  wait lemme guess… it has zero-cost abstractions? Incredible.
  
  @anatoli26 5y
  
  Yepp, and much more
@anatoli26 5y

Much much more
@anatoli26 5y

A perfect language system (lang, compiler, libs)
1. Deleted Account 5y
  
  >no typelevel metaprogramming
@OakGary 5y

javascript :)

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