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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 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] firefly@neon.nightbulb.net 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

BASHers ?

BASHionado ?

BASHist ?

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

R - pirates

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

Perl scripters call ourselves "Superior"

[–] filtoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Haha, I always suspected!

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[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 31 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Sharp dressed men 😎 (C#)

Please kill me.

[–] souperk@reddthat.com 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You spelled Fin Tech Bros wrong

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 years ago

Pfft I wish. I'm one bad day away from asking people if they want fries with that.

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
kill(me); // x_x 
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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 27 points 2 years ago

Dillusionists: Html

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Heathens.

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

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

It got lost in PHP's infinite recursion initials

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Java = Javier

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

[–] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

I know Go has gophers

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

SQL: Wizards.

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Terrans for Terraform? Vegans for OpenTOFU?

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

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years 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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[–] mx_smith@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Coballers - cobalt

Pascalleros - pascal

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[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Nothing for JavaScript?

Javascripters, maybe?

[–] filtoid@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

Alternatively we could pronounce it Joestars.

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[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago
[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 5 points 2 years 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).

[–] fancyl@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

We Clojurists use Clojure / ClojureScript

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