I’ve heard of Pythonistas and Rustaceans. What are some of the other names given to devs writing in, for example, PHP or C++. Appreciate any answers - both serious and joking.

  • velox_vulnusEnglish
    70•3 months ago
    • Gophers: Golang
    • Rubyist: Ruby
    • Lispers: Lisp
    • Schemers: Scheme
    • Chamelier: OCaml
    • Nixer: Nix lang
    • SQL jockeys: SQL
    • Purebloods: Haskell
    • Ninjas: C++ (more of a reference to LeetCode folks who mix C with C++)
    • firefly
      1•3 months ago

      Here, carry this big beam. It won’t be long now if you stay the course.

      “And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.” (Luke 9:23)

      “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.” (Romans 8:13)

      “I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our LORD, I die daily.” (1 Corinthians 15:31)

      • @[email protected]
        3•3 months ago

        I’m struggling to understand how this comment relates to anything. Perhaps you could explain what you are attempting to convey?

    • @xmunk
      7•3 months ago

      Our mascot is the Elephpant and I like to think PHP developers are also Elephpants.

        • @xmunk
          1•3 months ago

          Yea, but you run it together awkwardly.

      • @chickenf622
        8•3 months ago

        It got lost in PHP’s infinite recursion initials

        • folkrav
          5•3 months ago

          I don’t know know you’re talking $$$$$about

          • @chickenf622
            3•3 months ago

            PHP stands for “PHP Hypertext Processor”. The PHP in that stands for “PHP Hypertext Processor”. This pattern repeats infinitely.

            • @[email protected]English
              7•3 months ago

              See also: GNU’s Not Unix, WINE Is Not an Emulator…

              And in a slightly different way: I’m So Meta Even This Acronym (ISMETA)

            • folkrav
              3•3 months ago

              Ah, yeah, I knew that at one point. I find recursive acronyms so tacky I tend to tune that information out lol.

  • TeoTwawkiEnglish
    19•3 months ago

    C#itheads - those are the guys that show up to the emulation project I work on insisting we would drastically improve by nuclear rewriting millions of lines of code into c# (or another language occasionaly).

    It’s a 20ish yrs old c++ program, we’re never doing it but someone will show up trying to push the topic every couple of months.

    • @RezEnglish
      7•3 months ago

      As a junior dev, who mainly works with C#, wf improvements are they talking about? I always thought that C++ is way better for when performance is important, like in emulation. At my company, the seniors keep talking about how we should move away form .NET to C++.

      • TeoTwawkiEnglish
        8•3 months ago

        Usually some excuse about being more accessible from someone that just doesn’t want to leave their own comfort zone - non professionals playing at being professional after coming across our github. See also: complaints about not having an installer download (strictly clone and build)

      • @[email protected]
        3•3 months ago

        C# can have native performance, if you sit down and really optimize shit until you go mad, you can have absolutely minimal runtime friction. The .Net runtime despite it’s stupid fucking name from a bygone era is actually really smart with code gen.

        This of course depends on the code, project and your own skill level

  • @xmunk
    13•3 months ago

    SQL: Wizards.

  • DasFaultier
    11•3 months ago

    Ansiblings for Ansible (yes, I know this isn’t a programming language)

      • @[email protected]
        4•3 months ago

        Vegans for OpenTofu brought a smile to my face immediately, I shall hopefully remember to use this when it comes up.

      • DasFaultier
        2•3 months ago

        I’m not sure. It just might be if you count all the things that you can do with Jinja2, but I really hope it’s not.

    • @xmunk
      5•3 months ago

      I just want these damn vagrants off my lawn… I wouldn’t really mind if the delicious smells from their chefs wasn’t a constant distraction.

    • filtoidOP
      3•3 months ago

      I mean all technology terms welcome, I didn’t consider them before. I don’t know if Kubernaughts is the right term for K8s practicioners but I suspect it should be.