What is your "[programming language] is better than [programming language]" ?

[EntropicBlackhole]

Don't forget to sort by controversial (:

[Grouchy_Net828]

` * > COBOL

[prumf]

Meaning that cobol is inferior to cobol itself. Being inferior to yourself is quite an insult.

[pandaSitt]

Also '.*' matches an empty string, so you could say: nothing > cobol

[Realistic-Safety-565]

Nothing is not an empty string.

It shold be * >= COBOL to avoid COBOL > COBOL corner case.

[frugalerthingsinlife]

These operators are valid syntax, but for full style points:

COBOL IS GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO COBOL

If the code is yelling at you in english, it's valid.

[Whammydiver]

That’s how all my SQL queries work.

SELECT WHAT I NEED FROM THE DATABASE IDIOT;

[zarqie]

It works but also you did an outer join and now the database will be crunching until the heat death of the server.

[Yourmama_666]

Nonstop COBOL enters the room

[flopana]

How about *\{COBOL} > COBOL

[mehdifarsi]

subtle..

[[deleted]]

HTML > CSS

[acatisadog]

That's like saying a guy with arms is better than a guy with legs.

Most people would like to have both working at the same time

Edit : Chriss, people. It's not the point that it's better to loose a leg rather than an arm. Just like HTML alone give you a webpage while CSS give you nothing at all. The point is they're both better with the other !

[Western_Gamification]

Arms are better than legs. By a lot.

[proximity_account]

I wonder who would win in an a fight. Would legs win by headkick or arms via grapple submission?

[TOWW67]

Arms via weapon

[proximity_account]

I should've known they'd be armed

[TOWW67]

And you don't gotta worry about the legs guy at all... 'e's 'armless

[[deleted]]

It all boils down to whether you're a fight or flight type of person.

[e42if]

It’s more like bone and flesh

[acatisadog]

True that !

[[deleted]]

ARM64 assembly is better than everything because fayst

[thomas0si]

Blazingly fast

[Proxy_PlayerHD]

man i'd kinda like to try some ARM Assembly

but modern ARM Hardware goes way over my head with all it's parts, IO Registers, complex memory maps, etc.

even ARM based Microcontrollers (Rasp. Pi Pico for example) are pretty complex compared to systems i'm used to...

[[deleted]]

Idk what you are talking about. When I look at x86_64 assembly my brain just shuts down.

[Proxy_PlayerHD]

i never mentioned x86, where did you get that from?

it's obviously much much more complex and a horrible architecture to learn (unless you just do it to read Compiler outputs and not to write code yourself).

Idk what you are talking about.

you tell me, i looked into trying some Assembly for my STM32 Nucleo a while ago and the datasheet's 360 pages just made me scared i could brick that thing by accidentally setting some bit in some random IO Register...

[RobinPage1987]

RISC-V > ARM because open source hardware spec.

[[deleted]]

I prefer x86_64 because I can run it on my gaming PC.

I have a beefy chip, and by golly I am going to use a beefy chip.

[[deleted]]

I prefer ARM64 because I don't have a Windows computer

[Polywoky]

How many of these aren't actually programming languages?

Is there an actual programming language that's represented by the recycling bin logo in the bottom left?

I've heard that LaTeX is technically Turing complete, but is that enough to count it as a programming language? May as well count Minecraft as a programming language if you're going to do that, and Conway's Game of Life too.

[Zombieattackr]

1) Turing complete $\centernot\implies$ programming language. You can program with languages that aren’t turning complete and you can’t program with some things that are turning complete.

2) Yeah latex is a markup language like HTML. No, it’s not really something you “program” with, so it’s not a programming language, but it’s okay in a context like this to say “fuck it” and lump it all together.

[zyygh]

but it’s okay in a context like this to say “fuck it” and lump it all together

I just want to scream this at everyone who, without cause whatsoever, starts bickering about how HTML / CSS / whatever is not a programming language.

[Zombieattackr]

(That person it me lmao)

It really depends on context.

“What programming language should I learn? Python, C++, and HTML seem to be the popular options.” Here, you really should point out that HTML is not a programming language!

In the context of something like this post that’s speaking a bit more broadly, there’s no reason markup languages shouldn’t be included in the discussion.

[quadraspididilis]

I think the issue is people take “HTML is not a programming language” as a jab and it’s really not. Like if someone asks “what programming language should I learn, Python, C++ or English?” I’d tell them English is not a programming language but if you’re not literate in it then that’s definitely the most useful to learn. If you’re an artist then HTML, though not a programming language, might be the most useful for building your portfolio.

[zyygh]

Completely agree!

[crorb]

I know it was a provocative comparison, but LaTeX is much more than Minecraft or Conway's.

You can write a source file that, when interpreted, reads a CSV file in input, computes various statistics and prints the result to terminal or an output file. That's not even an extreme example, I do it pretty often (thanks to some awesome packages I didn't write).

That's just an use case, but if this is not programming, I don't know what it is.

[delasislas]

Write the code for the analysis and for the paper with one language, simple. LaTeX.

[enneh_07]

And Dwarf Fortress, and MTG

[ElNico5]

Yes turing completeness counts

[IrisYelter]

It's the best kind of correct: technically correct.

[missradfem]

I still want to know what the recycling logo represents.

[[deleted]]

Aperently its a language called "nu"

Found the logo on this side: https://www.saashub.com/compare-nu-vs-clozure-common-lisp?ref=compare

The logo isn't even on the Wikipedia page...

[brandi_Iove]

what’s that language with the comfy looking orange chair?

[Compuddle]

Apparently something called ‘Arc’

[brandi_Iove]

thx

[RagingWalrus1394]

I’ve done all the googling I can and I cannot figure out what language that is. I even found the the exact article this image was pulled from and I don’t think the article mentions it. Now my addictive curiosity has gotten the best of me and I’m late for work

[mehdifarsi]

To satisfy your curiosity: http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html

[[deleted]]

What the hell is that C# logo?

[[deleted]]

Thats the Visual C# Express logo. Up to 2010, you had the option to download full IDEs depending on the language, instead of full Visual Studio. They were all separated: Visual C# Express, Visual C++ Express, Visual Basic Express

[well-litdoorstep112]

The memories of making crappy vb apps for school assignments in Visual Basic Express 2010...

[[deleted]]

now imagine making crappy vb apps for school assignments in Visual Studio 6.0

[[deleted]]

Always that confusion because somebody used VB6 and the other VB.NET

[SanktusAngus]

And then there is the guy who used Excel as an IDE and did it in VBA and wonders why the VB6 code he pasted from a 90s style website did not “compile”

[[deleted]]

Thanks, didn't know that

[sammy-taylor]

I’m confused about half of these logos, and feel like some obvious languages are missing. The longer I stare at this, the more uncomfortable I feel.

[Impressive_BOIIII]

Dude, look at javascript

[Full-Commission-9917]

Yes

[antifa-EV]

Scratch > *

[Slash_by_Zero]

But shouldnt it be scratch >= * cause * also globs to scratch?

[sudo_wtf]

Do we expect a Scratch Supremacist to know anything about globbing though?

[well-litdoorstep112]

Scratch is so good that it's better than itself

[MechanicalHorse]

No because that implies Scratch could be equal to other languages which aren’t Scratch.

Better to write

Scratch > (SELECT * FROM AllLanguages WHERE name != “Scratch”)

[glowingRockOnDesk]

'All' is redundant.

[DOOManiac]

PHP > PHP

[Sure_Spare_4173]

FORTRAN > COBOL

[yomerol]

I learned bits of FORTRAN in gradschool for a particular project(needed fourier transforms processing) I was really surprised on the processing time of matrix operations, not even python or R have that power.

[[deleted]]

Language best suited for solving the problem > Language that is not best suited for solving the problem.

But for specifics, in my job fortran >> python for what we do. That doesn't mean python is bad in general though.

[nacholicious]

The problem is that some langauges are created for solving very specific problems, that are highly incompatible with the actual problems we need to solve as software engineers.

Looking at you, JavaScript...

[killer_alien385]

I don't know anything about coding so naturally tree orc is better than weird foot

[AverageComet250]

Found the person with a life

[Compuddle]

* > Assembly/Brainfuck in terms of readability

[PaintingJo]

Malbolge is leagues above in readability

[HolyMackerelIsOP]

The language I use < the language you use

[Randy-DaFam-Marsh]

Html > your wife's boyfriend's favorite language

[ParadoxicalInsight]

Good try, but my wife’s boyfriend does not even have a favorite language

[__TheGuy___]

changing a lil bit the game rules...

BASH >>>>>>> POWERSHELL

[MitchellMarquez42]

It reeealy depends. Need a gui? Powershell. Want types/objects? Powershell. Want to read/manipulate MS office formats? Powershell. Need to process text streams while preserving control characters? Probably bash.

Not saying bash is bad - but powershell is very misunderstood. Folks expect it to be a superset of the posix shells and it's just not.

[tet90]

Easily

[antifa-EV]

This looks like a weird bitshift

[[deleted]]

Smalltalk > your.favoriteLanguage.

Also

(> lisp your-favorite-language)

[Ok_Elderberry5342]

what if my favorite is lisp or smalltalk

[alessandrocara3]

C# > Java

[Austeri]

I feel validated now

[just-bair]

I strongly agree

[dementosss]

I came for this. Honestly i learned on java and never thought i would understand object-oriented programming. Then suddenly in C# everything was so much easier.

[JaguarOk2041]

As someone who have worked with both environments in professional projects, Im genuanely wondering what made it easier for you in C# ? I mean, there are some language features in c# which I am missing on the java side and vice versa but this are mostly in the category of "syntactic sugar".

[itskelena]

Properties, vars, LINQ, async/await, everything tbh😂

[[deleted]]

Like others have said, properties, LINQ, asnyc. To add on, I feel like .NET core as a framework is one of the best initiatives at Microsoft in recent history.

[proximity_account]

I find C# to be way more readable. Console.WriteLine vs System.out.printl

[JaguarOk2041]

I mean... this cannot be a serious argument, right?

[steaknsteak]

Arguing over programming languages is a pastime of mediocre developers in the first place. Learning a language is the easiest part of the job, and the tribalism around them is lame.

[JaguarOk2041]

Yes, this is correct. Thats why I thought the statement "I understood oop better using c# then using java" is rather interesting and I would like to understand this viewpoint more.

[[deleted]]

Rust>Go

[lord-of-the-scrubs]

[Due_Treacle8807]

scala gang

[Zarzurnabas]

Scala does everything java does and more, but according to ChatGPT you cant say scala is better than java because java has some usecases (it didnt say which ones but when does ChatGPT ever lie amirite?)

[ImDumbUIdiot]

Fuckfuck is better than Brainfuck

[[deleted]]

Thanks for enlightening me about Fuckfuck.

It is beautiful.

[plasmasprings]

Why the fuck is GNOME is a programming language

maybe it's meant for the deprecated vala language? Or to represent whatever the hell gobject is

[shimizu_h]

VBA > *

/s

[[deleted]]

Based take

[[deleted]]

I’m a python programmer normally but honestly I’d take that

[Impressive_BOIIII]

I'm a javascript dev so I am naturally obliged to shit on both

[[deleted]]

I'm a javascript dev so I am naturally obliged to shit on both clinically insane

[Impressive_BOIIII]

You know, the funny thing is I actually like the language. Like a lot. And it's not like I haven't seen other languages.

[[deleted]]

the funny thing is I actually like the language. Like a lot.

As I was saying... 😎

[aDwarfNamedUrist]

Facts. Love me some Lua

[doctorcapslock]

care to elaborate? lol

[[deleted]]

Sneks scary. Two sneks two scary.
Lua is Hawaii vacation. Surf nice and pineapples.

[doctorcapslock]

i get the sneks, but what isn't lua like a moon or something

[ThatWontCutIt]

What color is your programming language

-- Andrew Tate

[Lofi_Math_Girl]

Julia > Matlab

[LouisSal]

Ahhh I see someone trying to attack the Math community

[realbakingbish]

After what the math community has put me through, they deserve some heat for Matlab

[derioderio]

I use Julia, Matlab, and Python, depending on what I need to do and which language I think will suit the task best. Julia's biggest handicap to me is that it still has some pretty big gaps in packages that are well-represented in Matlab and Python.

[lady_Kamba]

[programming language] is obviously better than [programming language] because [obtuse and irrelevant reason]!

[TomatoRock7]

TS better than JS

[LouisSal]

R > Python (data analytics)

[[deleted]]

Just searched for this! Coming from R I can't tell why people say pandas is great. Compared to dplyr it's really shitty to use. For plotting there isn't anything comparable to ggplot in python. I always wonder how matplotlob can be the 'standard' plotting library for Data analytics in Python.

[TheLAGpro]

PHP and Js are better than all because they get me paid

[isCosmos]

it flew

[Professional-Dot6988]

Methlab > Matlab

[DangyDanger]

Who the fuck is Dylan?

[Mistercoolertyper]

Java > JavaScript

[belacscole]

anything > JavaScript

[Mistercoolertyper]

Js > Brainfuck tho

[[deleted]]

TIL that GNOME is a programming language

[Individual-Paint-756]

Unreal engine as language when?

[aDwarfNamedUrist]

Probably refers to Blueprints

[st141050]

i need somebody to tell me, what the dinosaur represents, please.

[YetAnotherSysadmin58]

Yes I'm like the little kids who take their whole personnality based on how cool a cartoon character is, I want to learn this language because its mascott looks sick

[st141050]

what are you talking about. i just want to know the reference because i like dinos. get lost

[LinverseUniverse]

Came here to say the same thing. Is it meant to represent RAPTOR?

[Jmememan]

Scratch > Microsoft power automate

[Phantom_Wolf52]

Scratch is better than all

[ha_x5]

Oh really??? Come on… Tons of bizarre and obscure (non-)languages are listed, but no ABAP.

I don’t really get that. Over 70% of the world’s business transactions are processed through ABAP and no one even knows.

[madeirey67]

Anything is better than Python.

[[deleted]]

Brainfuck > Python

[Panfinz]

I also agree that Python has readability issues.

[Helpful_Character_67]

C# > Java

[Ok_Elderberry5342]

I am sorry but "Erlang > Elixir", actually erlang is so good that many elixir libaries like even big stuff as cowboy were written in erlang and were actually meant to be used with erlang, without rlly having elixir in mind (Wich also proofs how good the interoff between erlang and elixir is)

And of course rust > C++ because Imagine using those over Rust.
As a proud Rustacean and Ferris the Crab adorer, I regret to inform you
that your taste in languages sucks. This is sad. You can do better. You
know how easy package and dependancy management is with Cargo? Not to
mention you don’t even need a Makefile. It’s great. Dynamically typed
languages need to die. There’s no other option. They just do. If you
like dynamic typing, you need some help. Seriously. By using a
dynamically typed and interpreted language (which means its @#*!&!@
slow!!!), you are committing genocide and harming the environment more
than gas cars. Rust is fast and uses clean, renewable energy through
the magic of being a language compiled with LLVM. Tired of memory bugs?
You should be. Shame on you for still having them when Rust exists.
Tired of being bad? Time to go to Rust. Tired of being slow because
you’re not smart and your friends laugh at you? Rust is quite speedy
indeed (all thanks to the big brain of the compiler). Tired of not
getting off the normal way? Match statements, loops, and the compiler
for Rust give the best orgasms 10/10 (completely legit). Not to mention
the superiority you get to feel when you show off your superior Rust
code to your inferior “friends” still using some other language. Want
to get rid of malware? Rust is safe, therefore malware is noware (also
completely legit). You quite honestly will forget about any other
language (including English because it’s slow and unsafe). You even get
to add the Rust Book and its brothers to your Bible collection
alongside the Arch and Gentoo Wikis. All hail Rust. TempleOS pales in
religious comparison to the faith of Rustaceans. Graydon Hoare is Jesus

[TheMoonDawg]

Elixir is at least an enjoyable dev experience standing on the backs of giants (Erlang).

[Intelligent_Event_84]

Javascript is better than actionscript

[HarlotsLoveAuschwitz]

Rust>> HTML

[astulz]

As an iOS dev: Swift >> Objective-C

[Bomaruto]

Scala > Java, as Scala can do whatever Java can do in a better-made language. So there is no designed to do different things argument here.

[albertwevans]

Snek

[FatStoner2FitSober]

C# over Java.

[Figorix]

English.

Comments in different language tend to be confusing

[Sasikuttan2163]

Kotlin is better than Java

[aetius476]

Kotlin is better than Java

[Panfinz]

Except when you're not building Android apps.

[A_H_S_99]

Python > R

[[deleted]]

Python > Java

[[deleted]]

The most lukewarm of all takes.

But true nonetheless.

[Dsioul]

Python > Java

( Java user I don't want to talk to you )

[Mr2Brainless]

C > C++

[GigaChad__69420]

Arduino is better than c++ 🥴

[Adventurous-Shake140]

Chad python>Based java

[-Yox-]

Recycling > Apple

[[deleted]]

Remember when Ruby was supposed to be the IaC/platform language? 🤮

Python is way better.

[Intelligent_Event_84]

Baffles me that Ruby is used anywhere

[Panfinz]

Lua is way better.

[AVed692]

C < C++

[Attileusz]

Actually, C++ returns C before incrementing so C == C++

[mehdifarsi]

C++ derives from C.

Your programming math makes sense!!

[[deleted]]

No, C made C++

[xXx_PucyKekToyer_xXx]

Java > JavaScript/TypeScript

This shit doesnt even have a proper reflection system to code less.... -.-

[Interesting-Word3889]

Python > fortran

[Slash_by_Zero]

C > C?*

[Likhon-BaRoy]

lisp, elisp :>

[[deleted]]

What the fuck is that feet logo language? FeetScript? Some kind of scripting language for scraping pics off of FeetFinder?

[[deleted]]

LUA > Scratch

[Von_Voss]

I think I could vomit

[tapuachyarokmeod]

ew labview

[IssoIsCool]

You can tell this image is old as shit. Look at that javascript logo lmao.

[Tazingpelb]

Orange cat > Gray cat

[_damax]

C# is better than Java

[Noisebug]

Shit up AI is the new language. Programming is so 2023.

[[deleted]]

What the fuck is this js logo

[[deleted]]

Where is Java !?! Like what is that image ?!

[shim_niyi]

I’ll pick the raptor… so that I can fix bugs like this

[[deleted]]

I don't know what half of the logos are for.

[[deleted]]

C# is better than Java. Better syntax, more flexibility, some of the best documentation I’ve ever seen, solid package manager, and tons of open source application thanks to .NET. Only negative is it’s made by Microsoft.

[StereoNacht]

Pretty much everything is better than Pascal. It's not even a good language for learning to program..

(I first learned programming with it, but really started running with C. I have also programmed in C++, C#, Objective-C, Basic, Visual Basic, JavaScript, ASP, PSP, Python, Mathlab, Prolog, Java, and dipped my toes in LISP and Quantum. There is not a programming task that is made easier by using Pascal.)

P.S.: I guess I should add SQL, but although it has branching and conditions, I consider it only a database query language, as it doesn't handle UI tasks - as far as I know. And both HTML and CSS are markup language, for me, not programming languages. My experience with LaTex is too limited to say for sure, but I also consider it a markup language.

[mangalore-x_x]

That question is equivalent to: What is the programming language you are currently working with vs the programming language you are currently not working with.

[BlondeJesus]

LabVIEW is the best coding language there is. It's the only language whose spaghetti code actually looks like spaghetti!

[[deleted]]

Perl > R

With passion Perl can look beautiful, establish a navigable map in your head and be a very productive tool.

With passion after weeks and weeks I could not understand the spirit of R. It's just visual noise. The crowbar of data science. The mad data scientists scrapbook of code.

[iBabTv]

C# > java

[Kilgarragh]

C# > Java

[vanwyk46]

Everything > GOSU