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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

R - pirates

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It got lost in PHP's infinite recursion initials

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You sir have won the Fediverse for today

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Coballers - cobalt

Pascalleros - pascal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Java = Javier

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Sharp dressed men 😎 (C#)

Please kill me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I know Go has gophers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)
  • 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++)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

psssss: Python

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

C could be “C-Men”

Has a nice ring to it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

/g/ calls them Cniles

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

C++ could be Keiths

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

what about Huskies?