Albin Jose@suppo.fi to Programming@programming.dev · 11 months agoWhich programming language is hard to understand?message-squaremessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down113
arrow-up160arrow-down1message-squareWhich programming language is hard to understand?Albin Jose@suppo.fi to Programming@programming.dev · 11 months agomessage-square122fedilink
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·11 months agoIn shell languages, concurrency is easy and everything else is hard.
minus-squarenous@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·11 months 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.