• Ajen@sh.itjust.works
      232·
      10 days ago

      The unicyclist on the left is saying the bicyclist is only riding a bike because they don’t have enough skill for a unicycle. The unicyclist on the right is saying they can’t learn to ride a bike because they’ve spent too much of their life riding a unicycle. It’s a dig at people who don’t want to switch to memory-safe languages like rust.

      • lad@programming.devEnglish
        12·
        10 days ago

        It’s a dig at people who don’t want to switch to memory-safe languages like rust.

        Now that’s a stretch, it could be anything (no, it couldn’t, although I think this may have application to some other pairs of languages)

        • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
          12·
          10 days ago

          Yeah, Rust is simply the big one right now. It could just as easily apply to people in the 1960’s who didn’t want to adopt structured programming, or a compiler at all.

          • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldOP
            4·
            10 days ago

            I personally prefer the memory safety tools offered by D over Rust. D also doesn’t come with const by default, and you can even opt out of the RAII stuff a certain graphics driver developer boasted about in the Linux developer mailings (RAII can be a bad for optimization).

            • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
              5·
              10 days ago

              I feel like this has come up before, and D is not memory safe. It has some helper-type features, but at the end of the day it is still C-like.

              • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldOP
                3·
                10 days ago

                Not if you opt in it. You can even put @safe: in the beginning of your D source code, then you’ll have a memory safe D (you have to opt out by using @trusted then @system).

                • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
                  5·
                  9 days ago

                  Alright, I’ll actually dive into the research again…

                  Oh, I see, D is garbage collected, so really it’s more like Java or Python. Maybe that’s what I’m remembering. Also, @safe code sounds like it’s pretty limited - far more limited than non-unsafe Rust.

                  Basically, if a language had been Rust before Rust showed up, Rust would have been a non-event. They solved a problem that was legitimately open at the time.

        • Ajen@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          10 days ago

          I mean, that’s just my interpretation. I don’t think it’s a stretch though, switching to memory safe languages like rust has been pretty big recently.

          How did you interpret the comic?

          • lad@programming.devEnglish
            3·
            10 days ago

            I should have added a ‘/s’, but I thought it is somewhat obvious, it really reminds of all the ‘git gud at C instead of doing Rust’

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      10 days ago

      I think it would be clearer if we saw the person on the bike pass by and the last panel was just the character laying on the ground