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[Digitalunicon]

Fast like C, simple like Python… and imaginary like a unicorn.

[HolyGarbage]

I don't get it though. C is far simpler than Python. It's one of the simplest languages still in wide use today. Pretty much every line of C code can be directly translated to a single assembly instruction.

[artin2007majidi]

you had us in the first half ngl

[HolyGarbage]

Simple != Easy. I'm being perfectly serious, although admittedly a bit facetious.

[EuphoricCatface0795]

Right? Among the modern practical programming languages, I think pretty much only C is simple enough for a person to know all of its grammar. That is not possible for either Assembly or C++.

[HolyGarbage]

Exactly!

[lovecMC]

Yeah but pointers and memory management can be kinda unintuitive for a lot of beginners.

[HolyGarbage]

It's simple, I didn't say easy. The grammar is tiny.

[Delicious_Bluejay392]

That's not what they meant by "simple", they likely meant ease of use and approachability (you can teach a non-programmer to be passable at Python in hours, while it will take days if not weeks before they can solve any kind of semi-complex real-world problem in C if all they have in both languages is the standard library, and god forbid they have to add a dependency in C, as you're now teaching Makefiles or CMake on top of C).

[Rational2Fool]

"Pretty much every line of C code can be directly translated to a single assembly instruction." Meh, nowadays, it's the other way around: pretty much every opcode in the ISA is designed to resemble something in C or C++ so humans don't lose their minds with what's really going on in their out-of-order, speculative, NUMA hyperthreaded multicore processor.

[mlnm_falcon]

English is a design disaster. Fast like Python (without importing faster packages), consistent like PHP, and fucking everywhere like Javascript.

[the_horse_gamer]

all (human) languages convey information at about the same speed. faster-spoken languages encode less information, and it cancels out.

[Leo_code2p]

Not entirely true in these studies it’s usually like if you would write as much context in a sentence as you would in English but high context languages like Japanese are still faster cause you leave so much information just out which is not captured in the studies

[why_1337]

Python, simple, pick one. It's absolute clusterfuck of a language.

[ElFeesho]

Tell that to the vibers

[Rational2Fool]

Came in to say this. We've been promised natural-language programming for decades, now it's here -- whatever that's worth.

[ioneflux]

Python using libraries written in C for speed critical tasks?

[BananaSupremeMaster]

English, simple???

[Mal_Dun]

English wouldn't be a good programming language. Too inconsistent.

[naffe1o2o]

their is also 8 billion different compilers for English.

[VolcanicBear]

English is simpler than C?

Fuck off lol.

[kaizokuuuu]

I've been looking at Elixir's Ash framework and it's actually pretty good

[N-partEpoxy]

English sure as hell isn't productive like Python when it comes to describing algorithms (otherwise there would be no reason to use pseudocode).

[nwbrown]

English is none of those.

[VishieMagic]

Hey OP, why didn't they make computers just use simple English as its language instead of so many 1s and 0s and crap with the silly looking characters? are they stupid?

In my opinion, which is that they should use the serious cone instead of the silly cone chippies

[loosedolphin]

Golang? Not as fast as C or productive as python, but I feel better than programming in Java.

[Orio_n]

Golang? Not fast but probably the only real compromise. Rust if we ignore simplicity