Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

@kiilas (note that I said "should be" instead of "isn't" - the unfortunate state of Modern Software Engineering means that there is still value in things that we should have progressed past years ago, because of the huge amount of stagnation we are actually seeing)

@kiilas I also hate that first thing, and I agree that there's value in sticking to something that doesn't change every few years.

But I think tools are really really important - with the right tools, you can cut out almost all bugs and produce really solid software.

And I don't think there should be value in sticking with a language which is at this point half a century old.

As an aside: have you seen this: http://www.c2lang.org/site/ ?

@kiilas as a haskell programmer, I don't agree with that at all - but I will say I'd much much much rather write C than Java or javascript or PHP

@kiilas I'm also not hating on modern languages, because I use quite a few (rust, idris, haskell if you consider that to be modern)

I'm have a problem with something very similar: "progress" which is actually just "the same things as before, but without learning any of the lessons we learnt from the things before"

(and also that most modern software engineering doesn't focus on those good things: doing what's expected well and without bugs)

@BatElite I only noticed that I said good morning because of this, so thankyou

@Liophu *hugs*

wait, hang on.... I didn't go to sleep, why am I saying good morning

I'm so confused

@kiilas this is a huge problem I have with "modern" languages - they often just copy C, without even looking into any of the programming language developments of the past 30 years

good morning~

@fillertrack D::

One thing I worry about with my guide is that my ratings are different to other people's.

Doctor Who fans generally want me to put more things into the "watch" category, whereas people who haven't experienced much Doctor Who generally want me to put less...

(Although, there has been one instance where I put a story into "watch" originally, because of nostalgia, but a fan was like "uhh.... no? That's one of the worst stories" and they were right)

@Baxter oooo

I am not enjoying The Abominable Snowmen very much, tbh

@BatElite but yeah, I could be like "this fanfiction isn't cannon", but that feels less fun