Is there any language that completely disallows bar practices? Even Rust has unsafe{}.
For a long time PHP did suck, because of its easy going type system. Is $user an object? A string? An ID? You’ll find out during runtime! Modern PHP has added enforced type annotations (making PHP objectively better than Javascript) which turned it from “kind of shit” to “pretty good” in an instant.
I think languages can be too flexible. Just look at C and the weird hacks C programmers use to bypass the lack of protections built into the language itself, and the amount of weird stuff you need to know if you want to recognise undefined behaviour. The more flexible your language is, the more experienced programmers you’ll need not to turn the program into a complete mess, which will eventually become a problem when a new team member replaces a greybeard who moved on to another project.
Super flexible languages are great for experimenting and programming as art, but if you’re trying to build functioning software, boring limitations are your friend. It’s why Java is still so popular after all this time: the language looks like it hasn’t changed since 2005 and the code you write is clunky and verbose, but at least it’ll be read readable in ten years when you need to replace the code.
Is there any language that completely disallows bar practices? Even Rust has unsafe{}.
For a long time PHP did suck, because of its easy going type system. Is $user an object? A string? An ID? You’ll find out during runtime! Modern PHP has added enforced type annotations (making PHP objectively better than Javascript) which turned it from “kind of shit” to “pretty good” in an instant.
I think languages can be too flexible. Just look at C and the weird hacks C programmers use to bypass the lack of protections built into the language itself, and the amount of weird stuff you need to know if you want to recognise undefined behaviour. The more flexible your language is, the more experienced programmers you’ll need not to turn the program into a complete mess, which will eventually become a problem when a new team member replaces a greybeard who moved on to another project.
Super flexible languages are great for experimenting and programming as art, but if you’re trying to build functioning software, boring limitations are your friend. It’s why Java is still so popular after all this time: the language looks like it hasn’t changed since 2005 and the code you write is clunky and verbose, but at least it’ll be read readable in ten years when you need to replace the code.
On the flip side, there is VBA which practically enforces bad practices.
Yes