Knowing Rust, Go and Kotlin that's what we're going to get sadly.

Okay, the printer one was fun but this is taken waay too far now.

As background for anyone who didn't hear about this, I enjoyed the relatively recent "Darknet Diaries" episode called "Hacker Giraffe".

I as a soon 16-year old definitely still consider myself a child, it's ignorant to disagree with what is practically proven. I'm definitely not as wise as this 14-year old, makes me a bit jealous, have to admit.

Mine will be called simply Programming Language.

How about A Programming Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)? Yeah, that's the ticket.

Or Programming Language One (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I)

And a recursive acronym to boot!

Mine will be a scripting language called Compiler

Mine will be called lang. The docs can be found on the official website, langlang.org of course.

Damn, I had this idea once, shame I didn't do anything with it. This looks like something I'll actually use though!

wxWidgets would help with that.

C++.

Unlike most, I don't see a problem with it being Lua or JavaScript. I'm just curious why people pick such high-level languages in the first place. I'm planning to make a fantasy computer myself (basing it off the z80), and would never think to make it scriptable in something other than machine code.

Because we had BASIC on 8 bit home micros and those languages are the natural successors.

But BASIC on those computers was interpreted, and thus far too slow. Even the C compilers weren't that great. Every real game, AFAIK, was written in 6502 assembly.

True, yet it made lots of kids happy to try out programming their own games and now they work across the industry, including myself.

Not everything is about the ultimate performance.

The point is that it's not "javascript interpreted in machine code", which in my opinion would make these computers far more fun, otherwise they're just fancy game frameworks.

> I'm planning to make a fantasy computer myself (basing it off the z80)

This is so much fun, I did this last year, although initially it only ran inside Unreal Engine. Later on I did a "native" port to Linux. It can run CP/M 2.x and Wordstar (https://i.imgur.com/rIY1he8.png), it had a telnet+VT100+zmodem client for accessing BBS's (https://i.imgur.com/VszSPkB.png), and I even added a graphics mode later on (https://i.imgur.com/t3kreQM.png).

I'm working on a 68000 based one now as well. It's a really great learning experience.

Is Rust the Arch of programming languages?

"Btw I use Rust".

I think that Rust has captured many developers that previously used Javascript, so it's their first introduction to things like static typing. As a result they are amazed that a compiler can show them errors in their code before it's run.

> the Arch of programming languages

I don't get your analogy.

I think they were getting at this:

How do you know someone uses "X"? Don't worry, they'll tell you.

How do you know if an individual is a vegan, does CrossFit, etc? Don't worry they'll tell you.

An elderly lady comes into the police station crying hysterically. "I've just been mugged!" she cries.

The desk sergeant asks, "Can you describe the mugger?"

"Not really, he grabbed me from behind. I know he's a man, bigger than me, and he's vegan."

"How on earth do you know he's vegan?"

"He bloody told me!"

Reminds me of this: https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-d...