he didn’t say that

he said once that static analysis of c++ is not possible because of the halting problem though

and he did create c++, which i use daily

i find it to be the language for other languages to learn how to absolutely not do it

it is the programming equivalent of that first scene in scary movie 1 where the woman first picks the banana instead of the gun and then runs in the direction “danger” instead of “safety” and gets run over by her distracted dad getting a blowjob in the car

not only likely… i read somewhere that make more money with linux stuff on azure than with anything else they do can’t find the source rn tho

So, of the two JavaScript, because motivating them to program is more important than anything else if they have no prior knowledge. javascript has great tooling and faaar less hurdles to get something going then C. Personally i’d go with TypeScript if it has to be anything in this family of languages, because making them think of types early on is helpful when moving to anything more than little web apps. If any other languages are considered, i’d go with python with type hints because it forces you to format your code somewhat readably (believe me, i know that it’s possible to write unreadable python code) but is really low on boilerplate, has great tooling (at least third-party, use uv) as well as stellar IDE support and allows for multiple different paradigms to be explored.

yes but also superior beings who cannot connect to their erstwhile siblings anymore

Meanwhile NixOS users