Albin Jose@suppo.fi to Programming@programming.dev · 1 year agoWhich programming language is hard to understand?message-squaremessage-square147fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down113
arrow-up160arrow-down1message-squareWhich programming language is hard to understand?Albin Jose@suppo.fi to Programming@programming.dev · 1 year agomessage-square147fedilink
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoIn shell languages, concurrency is easy and everything else is hard.
minus-squarenous@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·1 year agoConcurrency is not easy if you need the output and exit status of the commands. Fire and forget concurrency/parallelism is easy in any language. It is when you need to sync state up that it becomes hard.
In shell languages, concurrency is easy and everything else is hard.
Concurrency is not easy if you need the output and exit status of the commands. Fire and forget concurrency/parallelism is easy in any language. It is when you need to sync state up that it becomes hard.