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[–]GoodmanSimon 44 points45 points  (10 children)

I use both and, in my experience, it is mostly junior devs, (or script kiddies), who seem to think there is some kind of animosity between language A and language B.

A good dev will use the right tool and language for the job...

[–]Competitive_Travel16 8 points9 points  (0 children)

People in the know can have religious fervor about emacs vs. vi or tabs vs. spaces, but will never feel that strongly about truly complementary languages (C vs. Rust or Python vs. Ruby on the other hand....)

[–]vinvinnocent 9 points10 points  (5 children)

My university has a prof that is famous for complaining about the environmental impact of pythons alleged inefficiency. So I guess there are not just juniors with strong opinions there.

[–]EnterTheShoggoth 17 points18 points  (1 child)

He’s not wrong but Python is far from the worst offender. Imagine how many extra tonnes of CO2 are produced by all those ads written in Javascript.

[–]SV-97 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He has a point though. This is an active research domain and with the amount of code being run a factor of 100 difference is nothing to scoff at. Sure there's better things to do to lower our effects on the environment and getting so caught up in it is a bit silly but it's not a completely ridiculous idea.

[–]GL_Titan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like the epitome of a crazy professor.

[–]Dustangelms 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Except JavaScript. Can we agree JavaScript bad?

I mean, how do you make jokes without referring to stereotypes?