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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.

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[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 63 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] firefly@neon.nightbulb.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

BASHers ?

BASHionado ?

BASHist ?

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago

R - pirates

[–] js10@reddthat.com 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Perl scripters call ourselves "Superior"

[–] filtoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Haha, I always suspected!

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[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Sharp dressed men 😎 (C#)

Please kill me.

[–] souperk@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You spelled Fin Tech Bros wrong

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[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
kill(me); // x_x 
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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 27 points 1 year ago

Dillusionists: Html

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Heathens.

You're a god-forsaken heathen for using the wrong language.

[–] some_guy 26 points 1 year ago
[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] 69420@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It got lost in PHP's infinite recursion initials

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Java = Javier

It actually isn't but I think it should be.

[–] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Rez@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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++.

[–] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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)

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[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

I know Go has gophers

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

SQL: Wizards.

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Terrans for Terraform? Vegans for OpenTOFU?

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[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm under the impression that ansible is Turing complete.

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year 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.

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[–] WatTyler@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] loxdogs@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] WatTyler@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

Some of us aren't as husky as we would like to be; others are trying to be less husky. Presumably some of us are happy with ourselves, though I'm yet to meet them 😅

Jokes aside, we are all lovely people who just want to sit you down, make you a cup of tea, and convince you that good code does nothing and object-oriented programming is evil 😉

[–] mx_smith@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Coballers - cobalt

Pascalleros - pascal

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[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Nothing for JavaScript?

Javascripters, maybe?

[–] filtoid@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or perhaps JSters (pronounced Jesters)*

*Meant as a turn of phrase and not a criticism of the language.

[–] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Don't worry. They'll change it again next week.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Alternatively we could pronounce it Joestars.

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[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago
[–] fancyl@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

We Clojurists use Clojure / ClojureScript

[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Perl:

Just another Perl hacker, (sic)

This was coined by Randall Schwartz on Usenet a very long time ago. The comma has become part of it despite it originally being necessary for the English sentence it first appeared in.

Part of being a Perl aficionado is to write a japh script, that is a Perl script that prints out the above line, comma and all. The more obfuscated it is, the better. Another part is to not write code like that in production, at least not without comments explained what the heck the symbol soup is doing.

"(Perl) Wizard" has been applied to those who are notably proficient, thought that's usually a title bestowed by others.

The self-deprecating alternative is "funny character(s)" for both the symbols that appear all over Perl code as well as those who use them (I think this one was coined by Perl creator Larry Wall himself).

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