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.
Rust: “Rustaceans”
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
japhscript, 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).
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 lamguage occasionaly).
It’s a 20ish yrs old c++ program, we’re never doing it but someone will show up trying to push the topic evert couple of months.
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++.
C# can have native performance, if you sit down and really optimize shit until you go mad, you can have absolutely minimal runtime friction. The .Net runtime despite it’s stupid fucking name from a bygone era is actually really smart with code gen.
This of course depends on the code, project and your own skill level
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)
Java = Javier
It actually isn’t but I think it should be.
Coballers - cobalt
Pascalleros - pascal
I’ve heard COBOL devs being referred to in Polish as “koboliści” (I guess you could translate it as “cobolists”)
Lualiens
Perl scripters call ourselves “Superior”
Haha, I always suspected!
Superlior you say? Superl!
Nerds
PHools?
Missing a P
It got lost in PHP’s infinite recursion initials
I don’t know know you’re talking $$$$$about
PHP stands for “PHP Hypertext Processor”. The PHP in that stands for “PHP Hypertext Processor”. This pattern repeats infinitely.
Personal Home Pagers ™
Ah, yeah, I knew that at one point. I find recursive acronyms so tacky I tend to tune that information out lol.
See also: GNU’s Not Unix, WINE Is Not an Emulator…
And in a slightly different way: I’m So Meta Even This Acronym (ISMETA)
PHaPpers
You sir have won the Fediverse for today
Our mascot is the Elephpant and I like to think PHP developers are also Elephpants.
Is it pronounced “eleph pants”?
Yea, but you run it together awkwardly.
Heathens.
You’re a god-forsaken heathen for using the wrong language.
- Gophers: Golang
- Rubyist: Ruby
- Lispers: Lisp
- Schemers: Scheme
- Chamelier: OCaml
C could be “C-Men”
Has a nice ring to it
/g/ calls them Cniles
C++ could be Keiths
Diseased rats
Gleamons
Amazing, thank you for this comprehensive list :)
I definitely associate “ninja” with wannabe JavaScript developers.
Pureblood is pretty funny, though of course we actually use Haskellers. Honorable mention goes to “Haskellnaut” to (playfully) describe taking the language as far as it can go.
psssss: Python
Don’t forget rustaceans for rust!
That was given in the original question along with Pythonistas.
Ah, sorry.
Dillusionists: Html
R - pirates
I know Go has gophers
