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.
Perl scripters call ourselves “Superior”
Haha, I always suspected!
Superlior you say? Superl!
Sharp dressed men 😎 (C#)
Please kill me.
kill(me); // x_xYou spelled Fin Tech Bros wrong
Pfft I wish. I’m one bad day away from asking people if they want fries with that.
I believe you meant “Pound dressed men” https://thedailywtf.com/articles/5_years_C-pound_experience
😆
I had a college professor who called it “C hash”, so I’m inclined to name them “Hashers.”
Here, carry this big beam. It won’t be long now if you stay the course.
“And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.” (Luke 9:23)
“For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.” (Romans 8:13)
“I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our LORD, I die daily.” (1 Corinthians 15:31)
I’m struggling to understand how this comment relates to anything. Perhaps you could explain what you are attempting to convey?
Heathens.
You’re a god-forsaken heathen for using the wrong language.
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++.
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)
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
Haskellers for Haskell.
what about Huskies?
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 😉
Nerds
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C could be “C-Men”
Has a nice ring to it
/g/ calls them Cniles
psssss: Python
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.
C++ could be Keiths
Diseased rats
Amazing, thank you for this comprehensive list :)
Don’t forget rustaceans for rust!
That was given in the original question along with Pythonistas.
Ah, sorry.
Gleamons
Dillusionists: Html
PHools?
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.
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.
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)
Personal Home Pagers ™
PHaPpers
You sir have won the Fediverse for today
R - pirates
I know Go has gophers
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).
Ansiblings for Ansible (yes, I know this isn’t a programming language)
I’m under the impression that ansible is Turing complete.
I’m not sure. It just might be if you count all the things that you can do with Jinja2, but I really hope it’s not.
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.
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.
I mean all technology terms welcome, I didn’t consider them before. I don’t know if Kubernaughts is the right term for K8s practicioners but I suspect it should be.
Rust: “Rustaceans”
I’ve heard COBOL devs being referred to in Polish as “koboliści” (I guess you could translate it as “cobolists”)
