cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52190045
Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52190045
Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030
You wouldn’t mind writing machine code then? Ok, I’ll give you assembly. It’s all that’s needed to tell a computer what to do.
Of course I wouldn’t write in raw machine code, or even assembly. We invented higher level languages that are more powerful and easier for humans to use…
But the purpose is still to make machines so stuff!!! I’m not just writing code so that other humans can marvel at my algorithms.
This is so freaking dumb.
And that is my point. The primary purpose for all these abstractions is for humans to use. It’s first and foremost designed to be read and understood by humans, to make programming easier for humans.
I mean yeah I guess that’s its primary purpose if you totally ignore the fundamental thing it’s meant to be doing.
It’s like saying the primary purpose of a seatbelt is to be easy to fasten and unfasten.
@mr_satan @FizzyOrange
That is a far cry from where we started.
“Code is primarily to communicate from human-to-human, and only incidentally for computers to execute”