@charliebrownau @furgar @ryo I agree. But I would say more than that. If it doesn't have a REPL, it's also shit. And if you can't modify the program as it runs, it's also shit. So, all viable languages are shit, and the rest are dead or dying, or mostly toys. Since it's an industry, it is a field designed by and for retards, because designing things right takes too long, and monkey want banana now.

Abandon all hope ye who enter programming. I don't like it (that's an understatement). It's why I don't do it much. Other than my occasional shitty scripts written in the worst language ever made. I guess if you have to go with something bad, you might as well pick the worst, especially when it's still the most immediately usable. Other than that, the only thing that gets me to "want" to program at all is just how horrible other people's programs are. But let's be real here, I will never fix their mess no matter what I do, and I'm not going to recreate everything from scratch, so I'll just put a band-aid on the wounds that I can't ignore away. Maybe with some garlic under it to disinfect it.

Seems like every time I talk about tech, it turns into a rant. Even the programs that I like, even they are unbelievably broken. Like Emacs! With Athena, the GUI keeps freezing, constantly. With GTK, it doesn't, but then the daemon doesn't work as it should, because of a bug that was never fixed! Everything is like that to some degree or another, unless there is nothing good about it at all, like web browsers. Hell, I could complain about this page itself. Pleroma may actually be the worst website that I have ever seen in my entire life. ONE TAB of it manages to slow the browser down. HOW?! It's TEXT AND IMAGES! I can run 3D video games with dozens of hours of content, and they don't slow down at all, but text and fucking images do!