alt.hn

3/19/2026 at 12:52:48 PM

The Two Worlds of Programming

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-two-worlds-of-programming/

by HotGarbage

3/19/2026 at 1:45:14 PM

Perhaps this submit deserves expanding a bit the title here on HN, as the current one doesn't tell much about quite interesting points the author is making

by kunley

3/19/2026 at 3:03:20 PM

Well, it's a skeptical take on AI so it will be downvoted to oblivion and buried.

by MichaelRo

3/19/2026 at 3:29:52 PM

This tension is as old as programming itself. Dijkstra and Hoare spent decades arguing for rigor.

Meanwhile C, JavaScript, and PHP, none of them designed for correctness, won the world. The languages that ship always beat the languages that are right.

LLMs just accelerated the pattern.

by DaleBiagio

3/20/2026 at 7:43:58 AM

"There are 2 kinds of programming languages : the ones that everyone complains about and the ones that no one uses"

by az09mugen

3/20/2026 at 9:12:07 AM

haha, where is that quote from? Fantastic

by DaleBiagio