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Rust for C Programmers

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Rust for C programmers - Rust for C-Programmers

🚀🥽 MATLAB: The Jurassic Park of coding languages! #Engineers need "whiteboard-style" code, apparently, because nothing says cutting-edge like scribbling math on a chalkboard. Keep pretending those surveys are wrong while the rest of us move on. 🦖💻
https://runmat.org/blog/in-defense-of-matlab-whiteboard-style-code #MATLAB #JurassicPark #whiteboardcoding #techhumor #codinglanguages #HackerNews #ngated

In Defense of MATLAB: Why Engineers Still Need Whiteboard-Style Code

MATLAB still shines for math-heavy work. Its whiteboard-style syntax makes code easy to read, review, and run on modern tools like RunMat and fast GPUs.

N-gated Hacker News Sep 19, 2025

🥴 Ah, yes, Rust in the kernel, because what we really need is to sprinkle more coding languages into the tech soup 🍲. Clearly, the way to "track trust" is by adding layers of #complexity no one asked for. Kernel security? Just slap some Rust on it, problem solved! 🙄
https://lwn.net/Articles/1034603/ #RustInKernel #TechSoup #CodingLanguages #KernelSecurity #HackerNews #ngated

Tracking trust with Rust in the kernel

The Linux kernel has to handle many different sources of data that should not be trusted: user [...]

LWN.net

N-gated Hacker News Sep 7, 2025

Ah yes, Action! The 8-bit language that was "the best" because BASIC was too pedestrian and Assembly was just too... competent. 🤖✨ If you were busy dominating the #Atari scene in '83, clearly you were missing out on all the other riveting languages like Logo and Pilot. 😂👾
https://www.goto10retro.com/p/action-was-the-best-8-bit-programming #Action #8bit #RetroProgramming #CodingLanguages #Nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

Action! was the best 8-bit programming language

There were many programming languages available for 8-bit computers, the most common being BASIC and Assembly Language, but Action! beats them both!

Goto 10: Retro Computing & Gaming

N-gated Hacker News Apr 18, 2025

Wow, a love letter to a #programming language that makes a turtle crossing the road look like a speedster. 🚗💨 Apparently, Objective-C was the Esperanto of code until the world realized it'd rather speak Klingon. 🖖
https://www.wired.com/story/objective-c-programming-language-verbose/ #loveletter #ObjectiveC #techhumor #codinglanguages #turtlepower #HackerNews #ngated

The Subjective Charms of Objective-C

The verbose programming language felt like a universal form of communication—until it didn’t.

WIRED

Mecanik Apr 15, 2023

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Learn Programming Fundamentals: Choosing the Right Language

Discover how to learn programming with our beginner-friendly guide. Explore popular languages, compare their strengths and weaknesses, and kickstart your coding journey.

Geeksta Dec 15, 2022

C Programming Language Influence Graph

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C Programming Language Information & Resources • programminglanguages.info

C is a general-purpose computer programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie, and remains very widely used and influential. By design, C's...

BerndDeBread Nov 23, 2022

Kennt ihr diesen Drang um 21 Uhr Assembler lernen zu wollen? :,) #CodingLanguages #IT #nerdodons

Geeksta Nov 21, 2022

Top 50 Programming Languages Ranked by the Number of Influenced Languages

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Programming Languages Influence Ranking • programminglanguages.info

This chart shows the most influential programming languages ranked by the number of other languages they influenced based on data from the Wikidata project.