Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. This was a bit late - I was too busy goofing around on Discord)

    • mirrorwitch@awful.systemsEnglish
      10·
      6 days ago

      tf is jai

      Why is Jai ground-breaking? Jai is so important because it is an effort to build a modern systems programming language from the ground up by a very gifted and experienced developer.

      programmers. programmers never change.

      With his knowledge of all C/C++ shortcomings, he rethought every one of these problems to give them an easier to use, more elegant and more performant solution. In this way Jai really is a better and modern day C, and also a C++ done right.

      “14 competing ‘modern take on C’ languages? Ridiculous! We need to develop one definitive alternative that fixes all the problems with C++”

      • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
        12·
        6 days ago

        a very gifted and experienced developer.

        Don’t forget the most crucial part. The very gifted and experienced developer … is Jonathan Blow.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      Getting mad because developers have not had time to update a piece of code that wraps another piece of code and blaming it on the language is in interesting choice.

      Telling a whole project ‘your language sucks you should rewrite it in my pet language’ is always a nice classic of the nerd genre. (Happy I never got a big language hangup like that. (Apart from a short bit of a dislike of functional programming languages, but that was just due to a bad early experience)).