When I learned Python I thought that not having a statically typed language was the way to go, but then it just became an issue when I was trying to ensure that everything was at least something like what I was expecting. Going back to statically typed languages even harder with Rust has been a dream. I love it.
Fr, though, duck typing in Python is one of my biggest annoyances.
I love duck typing! dynamic typing is my issue…
“Assume it’s a map and treat like a map and then catch the type error if it’s not.” Paraphrased from actual advice by Guido on how you should write Python. Python isn’t a bad language but the philosophy that comes along with it is so fucked.
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Eh, strict typing makes debugging way, way easier. Saint Grace brought us compilers for a reason. If all you have is assembly, you should start writing one.
Ferris smirking You sure?
For NASA, data types don’t matter when you’re programming Voyager 1 and 45 years later it gets hit by an energy burst causing 3% of the RAM to become unusable, and it’s transmitting gibberish. It’s awesome they were able to recover it.
Python with type hints and mypy and ruff = <3
Large Python codebase without types = nightmare
I’m too lazy to insert the “look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power” meme here, so… Please imagine it instead.
I’m switching jobs in a couple of months, and I am SO glad to be leaving a (very well maintained!!) python codebase with type hints and mypy for a rust codebase.
It is just not the same.
Nice! I’d love to use Rust at work, I was a Haskell guy for hobby things, rather recently switched to Rust for that, and I enjoy it a lot. Taking 80% of the good lessons from functional programming while staying performant and practical and just have nice tooling - whoever designed Rust are wise people who know what is important for happy developers.
My job is mainly C++, and if you have seen the bright side of life, it is difficult not to be frustrated by the language and tooling. I think C++ without clang-tidy is almost as horrible as Python without types and linters. Undefined behavior and foot guns everywhere!
Oh yeah rust tooling is insanely good ootb
juniorest of memes
let comment: String = String::from(“lol”);
println!(“{}”, comment);println!("{comment}");C’mon, it’s 2025!
I was actually tempted to try learning nasm for funsies a year or two ago until I discovered it doesn’t support ARM processors 🥲
Assembly languages are always architecture specific. Thats kind of their defining feature. Assembly is readable machine code.
nasmis an assembler though, not a ‘languages’, that only supportsx86/x64.gasfor example supports a wide range of architectures so you can writerisc-v,arm,x64, etc.Are you arguing that assembly languages are not architecture-specific? I don’t think that’s the typical definition.
Nasm is an assembler, but it also represents a specific assembly language targeting x86 architectures.
Gas is an assembler of a higher order. It can emit code for many architectures, and thus it accepts many different architecture-specific assembly languages.
nasmis an assembler though, not a ‘languages’That’s like saying “clang is a compiler though, not a language”. It’s correct but completely beside the point. Unless you’re writing a compiler, “cross platform assembler” is kind of an insane thing to ask for. If want to learn low level programming, pick a platform. If you are trying to write a cross-platform program in assembly, WHY!? Unless you’re writing a compiler. But even then, in this day and age using a cross-platform assembler is still kind of an insane way to approach that problem; take a lesson from decades of progress and do what LLVM did: use an intermediate representation.
The reason I used the nasm logo is because Assembly itself doesn’t have a logo since it’s not really one language. This is the one I’m with the most familiar with so that’s the one I used. This meme would apply to any Assembly language.
Not sure I’ve ever heard of nasm
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