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Read moreAnnouncing Fun 0.37.62 - The Programming Language that makes You have Fun!
I am a little bit tired actually, so I won’t write detailed information in this blog post now, but I will update this post in the next days.
In the past 5 month it was very hard work to implement the Fun programming language, but I am happy to announce this first release of Fun.
Please read the announcement at https://fun-lang.xyz/2026/01/25/announcing-fun-0.37.62/ if you want more information about having Fun!
R.I.P. Windows 10 - Microsoft Sucks!
Windows? For me the most incompatible, most insecure and unusable operating system… :)
Fortunately only in a virtual machine for testing purposes here.
Why I Love C
When I started seriously implementing projects in C over 20 years ago, I was fascinated by the fact that you can do things in memory without using assembly. C is a very straightforward language with one feature that really impresses me: C is incredibly fast.
The argument that C is problematic with pointers doesn’t hold water for me. When programming, it’s my job to program in a resource-efficient way. But I’m a bit old-fashioned in that regard.
Languages ​​like Rust or Go solve many of the problems of C and C++, but they don’t feel as comfortable to me as C. If I had to choose something newer, I would use Rust. But it has hardly any technical background; it’s just a gut feeling I’ve developed over the past 15 years of programming.
Oh, I don’t use C++. This has nothing to do with a technical decision, but I don’t like C++. C++ isn’t nice. Python, for example, is a very nice language. I feel comfortable when programming languages ​​are feeling natural. C feels very natural to me, like speaking english or german. Java is also nice, but I don’t use it anymore because I don’t have a use case for it. And to be honest, Ruby is weird… ;)
Ok, I am mixing languages and use cases. That’s not fair! But syntax is really important when writing code… PHP5 had a beautiful and simple style that I loved when it was first released in 2004.
When I was working on my own programming language (fun) some time ago, wanting to learn more about implementing it in some existing programming language, I chose C, even though I was aware of the advantages of other languages, such as Rust. But C just feels right.
Quote of the day
"I guess what it boils down to is that it's not recommended to use NTFS on an operation system drive."
Arch Capital (2018)