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by taylodl
696 days ago
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> Don't you agree that we (as an industry) should be working to reduce the number of footguns in the world? Sure. The problem is everybody and his brother have an idea for what that looks like. There's no universally agreed-upon consensus of what a footgun actually is, which makes it rather difficult to remove them. I've been creating software for over 40 years now and the only constant truism I've discovered in that time is people will find reasons to bitch about something. Some people hate braces. Some people hate wordiness. Some people hate parenthetical statements. Some people hate math and "mathy-looking" languages. It goes on and on. And that's just syntax! We can go down several rabbit holes WRT how to handle errors. Meanwhile, according to the latest TIOBE index, Python is the #1 language, followed by C++ and then C. As I keep saying, you don't have to like Python, you don't have to use it, but you should be able to whiteboard it. And whiteboards don't give two fucks about whitespace. |
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Cool. I'm glad you agree. Given that we're talking about a particular entirely-avoidable footgun, there's nothing more to be said.
> TIOBE
Oh boy, there are assloads of very valid critcism of TIOBE's popcon. You should take a look at their methodology some time:
> Since there are many questions about the way the TIOBE index is assembled, a special page is devoted to its definition. Basically the calculation comes down to counting hits for the search query +"<language> programming"
See [0] for more embarrassing details.
> And whiteboards don't give two fucks about whitespace.
Given that you're late-career, you may be unaware that very many interviews are done remotely these days. So, no, whiteboards absolutely do give many fucks about whitespace these days.
[0] <https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_defin...>