If programming languages were weapons. Old but gold.
Source: so old it’s lost
biestander, Avestan
9point6, Maybe try a different lemmy client, it loads fine for me in sync
TheBat, 
Fine on Liftoff as well
Bumblefumble, It’s a very large image, so many clients load a scaled down version. On Boost at least you can press the HD icon and it loads the fullsize images where stuff is legible.
CanadaPlus, It’s fitting that 3D printed guns have also come a long way.
frogbellyratbone_, 
c# is absolutely a laser rifle strapped donkey nothing has ever spoken to me so much b4
Anticorp, Hey now! PHP may be old and a bit clunky, but it gets shit done. I’d say PHP is the Colt repeating rifle, since PHP won the internet and the Colt won the West. Much like the Colt, there are better tools available today, but if you want stuff done reliably and quickly, PHP and the Colt are good choices.
TootSweet, Way too kind to Java. Otherwise, pretty accurate.
(I just hate Java. Lol. Despite writing it 40 hours a week.)
ICastFist, 
Assembly: A gauss rifle, but you have to manually align the magnets
BASIC: 2mm Kolibri
Nim: An AR-15 that you can modify to shoot explosive minigun bullets
Crystal: A halberd with obsidian crystals
Pascal: Trebuchet. A small handful of people know how to make it a truly powerful weapon capable to bringing down any and every opponent.
uzay, JavaScript is a foam bat. Easy enough to wield and it’ll get the job done, but very inefficiently and it’ll be an ugly sight…
darcy, 
however, it is still used and endorsed by every army
AngryCommieKender, Since my father makes anywhere from $400-$1200 an hour coding in COBOL, what’s COBOL?
caseyweederman, A T-Rex. The only people with the know-how to convert everything it does to something more modern are $400-$1200/hour motivated not to.
Magnetar, Secret magic chants of the ancients
phoenixz, That hose got me a company and many good jobs, still loving the hose to build.grrwt projects. I love my PHP
akariii, still waiting for some of these memes to include haskell…
ICastFist, Haskell is the “words as a weapon”, a heavy book that nobody really understands but is great to thump heads
darcy, haskell is an intricately designed laser gun that you cant shoot it without a learning group theory and lambda calculus
flashgnash, I feel like python would be an AR-15 or something, generic modern weapon that’s easy to use but doesn’t really do anything special
Dr_Cog, 
Definitely better than this outdated version. Nobody uses Python2 unless they want to at this point
Agent641, ADA is an F-22 Raptor. Effective and functional, but you can’t have one.
frozen, 
Definitely ancient since C# has been cross-platform for 4 years with Dotnet Core. If you include Mono, make that 19 years.
popemichael, 
I learned perl to make IRC bots and to customize bulletin boards in the late 90s, early aughts.
I owe a lot to that language as it impressed a woman with my skills in it. I got my first marriage and eldest son out of it.
psud, Funny. I learnt perl to make an IRC bot. I didn’t even get a tee shirt, let alone a wife and son
nxdefiant, Python needs an update:
Python would be a Tavor TS12 automatic shotgun with rotating tube magazines. It’s heavy, doesn’t have a fast fire rate, but it can fire a ridiculous array of ammunition, and they’re working on the ability to fire all the barrels at once (GILess)
wim, They’ve been talking about removing the GIL since I was in primary school. My children are in primary school now. I’ll believe it when I see it.
CapeWearingAeroplane, If you write C/C++ libraries for Python you can disable the GIL
nxdefiant, I believe it was announced that 3.14 will make it an optional flag, so here’s to hoping.
nickwitha_k, There’s now been an investment of dev time from the company formerly known as Facebook to try to push it in 3.12 or 3.14.
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