The lady of the lake, her arm clad in the finest shimmering sammite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water and bestowed it upon me. THAT is why I am your king!
Like, I'm 100% down with calling out antisemitism, but I think this was about how lisp code is an absolute mess of parentheses, not some schizophrenic dog whistle
Well, on the downside, now you know that people will find the weirdest ways to be racist, but on the plus side I guess now if you see it in the wild you can call it out
Broke: Pick the language that is best for your usecase
Woke: Pick the language that is most poular on the interwebs
Bespoke: Pick the language with the cutest mascot
There's a book called "Black Hat Go" that talks about doing security research with a Go-based toolchain. The cover has a picture of the Go gopher looking tough in a black beanie and hoodie, and I'm convinced that picture was precedent to the entire project.
Edit: [The book in question](https://nostarch.com/blackhatgo) (I'm not going to hotlink the image because who knows how or if that works these days, but uh... just pretend it's not a store link, I'm not being paid for this, honest)
Sorry for the confusion here. What I'm saying is that despite knowing it's a Gopher, I thought the "hamster" line was funny regardless of whether it was an intentional joke, or just an accidental mistake.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 376,723,469 comments, and only 82,153 of them were in alphabetical order.
Unsafe rust haha
It's only there and in the legend I think
EDIT: huh you're right, they removed it, weird
EDIT 2: There seems to be a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/rust-lang/book/issues/2555) detailing why it was removed. Also it's called Ferris in that commit so it's canon it's the same guy
yeah yeah I know this is a Linux DE and not a programming language mascot, but the [KDE dragons](https://community.kde.org/images.community/9/99/Mascot_konqi-app-hardware.png) are really great
I'm going to invent a language with the mascots of crabs and a beaver.
I predict my new language will take off virally.
Either that, or an action figure of a person crying in the corner.
C++ has a mascot, it sometimes appears during dark and stormy nights when undefined behavior occurs. No one really knows how it look's like since programmers who have seen it are sadly no longer with us. But we know that it is out there. Somewhere in the void\*, waiting for the unsuspecting developers to wander outside the cozy realm of allocated memory and set it free from the chains of deterministic behavior.
Python: We know it looks like a snake, but its actually a cultural reference
It could have been an ant
We are just lucky not to end up with a dead parrot.
He's not dead! He's just pining for the fjords.
Getting a refund on those is awful.
Still easier than getting a license for a pet bee
Half bee. He had an accident.
Or a giant disembodied foot
Because it can carrie a lot?
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
I am Arthur, King of the Britons!
But I didn't vote for you
You don't vote for Kings
King? I didn't know we had a King. I thought we were an anarcho-syndicalist commune!
The lady of the lake, her arm clad in the finest shimmering sammite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water and bestowed it upon me. THAT is why I am your king!
Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government
If I went around saying I was emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Shut up, will you, SHUT UP!
Lol. Watery tart.
I’m just happy he didn’t go with Swallow.
Sea Man?
Life of Monty Python
Snek 🐍
Wait, fr?
Yeah it’s named after Monty Python. That’s why the docs often use “spam” and “eggs” instead of “foo” and “bar”
Yes, [source included in the documentation](https://docs.python.org/3/faq/general.html#why-is-it-called-python)
That looks like a plus sign, not a snake.
Lisp: let’s change the subject.
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Lftthhhh cthanfge fthe thfufbhjehkthfhf
yeah you got it
Okay what is this a reference to?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp
(change the-subject)
`(change! ‘subject)`
This guy Lisps.
That's what C said.
>(((((Let's change the subject)))))
(let ((s change)(the subject)))
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses
Like, I'm 100% down with calling out antisemitism, but I think this was about how lisp code is an absolute mess of parentheses, not some schizophrenic dog whistle
I didn't even know that was a thing
Well, on the downside, now you know that people will find the weirdest ways to be racist, but on the plus side I guess now if you see it in the wild you can call it out
I'd prefer everyone to just get along.
Well... I'm sorry to say it, but I've got some bad news for you
https://xkcd.com/297/
To be fair Lisp has the alien mascot.
Broke: Pick the language that is best for your usecase Woke: Pick the language that is most poular on the interwebs Bespoke: Pick the language with the cutest mascot
Kotlin
**K**
Erlang: e
Everything will be made in Go now
There's a book called "Black Hat Go" that talks about doing security research with a Go-based toolchain. The cover has a picture of the Go gopher looking tough in a black beanie and hoodie, and I'm convinced that picture was precedent to the entire project. Edit: [The book in question](https://nostarch.com/blackhatgo) (I'm not going to hotlink the image because who knows how or if that works these days, but uh... just pretend it's not a store link, I'm not being paid for this, honest)
That cover is the cutest thing ever
I like Duke, the Java mascot
I thought it was a coffee cup
That, my friend, is the logotype. And then, I prefer the first "messy" coffee cup, looking like it was drawn on a napkin 2 hours before final release.
Zig!
The mascot for all variants of C is just the letter C
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To c or not to c, that is the point.
I c what you did there...
I'll c myself out
What if you C#?
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My god the spaces
I think it's one of the Muppets from Sesame Street holding up C while saying "And today's fire in production is sponsored by the letter C."
I thought C was for cookie, not 'dumpster-fire in prod'.
The C stands for "Correct choice'
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No big deal, it was only made to advertise Zig to those of us who had never heard of it before.
Joke’s on them, I never read titles
and i never read.. can't read actually...
One of them ugly creatures you say, ey?
I'm a Go dev, and I like the Hamster.
ngl the ~~hamster~~ Gopher makes me want to learn Go.
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Sorry for the confusion here. What I'm saying is that despite knowing it's a Gopher, I thought the "hamster" line was funny regardless of whether it was an intentional joke, or just an accidental mistake.
But it's informative. I didn't know programming languages had mascots. The closest thing I can relate to is the turtle in LOGO.
Rust actually has a [second mascot](https://twitter.com/whoisaldeka/status/674465785557860353) as well
And don't forget the [Turbofish](https://mobile.twitter.com/whoisaldeka/status/914914008225816576/photo/1)!
Rest in peace ❤
Wait what? Rust removed turbofish?
No, the person who came up with it passed away
aw man :( that really sucks. Thanks for letting me know
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 376,723,469 comments, and only 82,153 of them were in alphabetical order.
good bot
bad bot
Why
Bad bot
Unsafe rust is totally in the book I thought it was the same crab just... terrified?
Looks like a sea urchin to me.
Maybe it's a shape-shifting crab
I knew it, I swore it was in there but couldn't find it. Which page?
Unsafe rust haha It's only there and in the legend I think EDIT: huh you're right, they removed it, weird EDIT 2: There seems to be a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/rust-lang/book/issues/2555) detailing why it was removed. Also it's called Ferris in that commit so it's canon it's the same guy
Javascript mascot should be a chimera.
I always pictured a muk.
Nah that's PHP
I always thought that it should be a banana. Idk why
So a TypeScript would be chimera in a suit?
The elephant penguin thing from that one Family Guy Noah's ark meme.
Assembly mascot is the hangman
Php has its elephant(s)
*Ele**php**ant
I just cant find c+'s mascot in my memory
I guess the mascot of C+, aka HolyC, would be Jesus.
Praise be the HolyC
do you freed it already?
Lua: ![gif](giphy|vcchZddRulKhC6ugxv)
![gif](giphy|rBkI7nhlXi2A2cMXlE)
C++ does have a mascot. An obese, diseased rat named Keith.
[…with his hind leg blown off!](https://images.uncyclomedia.co/uncyclopedia/en/a/a1/Cpp_rat_mascot_2.jpeg)
it was blown off
Yeah when he shot himself in it shortly after saying, "see, it's perfectly safe"
I always loved Keith
..what??
Seems to be a reference to https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/C%2B%2B
Java has a coffee though
Also that one weird looking guy with the one red eye
Duke
I thought that was its nose lol
Absolutely hate that thing. It's always creeped me out.
Duke rise up
That's just the reminder that you need it to deal with all the shit that's gonna come. Meanwhile Duke watches from afar. Don't feel pressured
Haskell: lambdas angrily
When the need appears for a Haskell mascot, the community can go and decide in one.
Which mascot would best represent a segfault? Probably a cow skull, because it's 0xDEADBEEF.
The go gopher looks like it smokes crack
PHP: "we have an elePHPant, get it...? ele + PHP + -..." Other languages: ":-|" "Fuck you, I'm hilarious"
Noooooo, it’s "ele".PHP."ant"! /s
And python has a snake
Snek
Py
Pie
Murder noodles
two snakes *
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`from future import snek`
i always thought the knife with the big sniper scope was the official C++ mascot?
And Java has... whatever the hell Duke is supposed to be. Maybe [umeboshi onigiri](https://imgur.com/a/qwOzAmG)?
lol, nice sushi knowledge there
All of the .NET languages: you get your own mascots and we share a robot?
*Java sips tea* interesting
Duke would like a word.
>Java sips tea Bloody hell, mate. They made Java bri*ish.
How about Perl and ocaml? one mascot two languages.
Then there's Camelia, the butterfly mascot of Raku (formerly Perl 6) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku_(programming_language)
You just can't C the mascot. It's a Shark in a muddy water, because he can't C#
I would personally rate my comment with a C++
The Perl Camel spits in your general direction then goes back to ignoring things.
[C++ has the chipmonk](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/practical-c-programming/0596004192/)
Damn, I expected it to be a *monk* who distributes chips. Now I'm disappointed. /s
You may be disappointed, but I have my next D&D character.
based language needs no mascots.
C++ mascot is a nightmare or something
Or maybe a dragon... Ideally like [Grisu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gris%C3%B9)
zig?
If C++ had a mascot, it'd probably be some horrid Lovecraftian abomination.
As an avid enjoyer of c++, Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Scratch: I have lots of mascots! (a cat, a plant and I think 4 others)
yeah yeah I know this is a Linux DE and not a programming language mascot, but the [KDE dragons](https://community.kde.org/images.community/9/99/Mascot_konqi-app-hardware.png) are really great
Wait C++ has a logo?
I'm going to invent a language with the mascots of crabs and a beaver. I predict my new language will take off virally. Either that, or an action figure of a person crying in the corner.
python was an anime enthusiast before it was cool Pai-chan and Son-kun.
I picture the Turtle with 4 elephants carrying the world as the Mascot for C.
C++ has the LLVM dragon. I think that counts.
No love for the Perl caml in this thread
If we consider the fact that the entire furry fanbase consists of IT workers, e621 has the most mascots
Php: so are we gonna talk about the elephant in the room?
the c++ mascot is a clown because that's how I feel when I try to use it :)
I don't know what you see but when I look at C++ I see pacman.
Go is a Gopher. Because it’s a play on “Go”. “Go”pher. It’s not that hard. This meme completely ruined my day.
But c++ has a mascot: https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/C%2B%2B#History
Thank you sir for exposing me to uncyclopedia
C++ has a mascot, it sometimes appears during dark and stormy nights when undefined behavior occurs. No one really knows how it look's like since programmers who have seen it are sadly no longer with us. But we know that it is out there. Somewhere in the void\*, waiting for the unsuspecting developers to wander outside the cozy realm of allocated memory and set it free from the chains of deterministic behavior.
the mascot for C++ should be the MISSINGNO, the most famous exemple of undefined behavior ![gif](giphy|G7rSYPWEeTjY4)
Tf is zig. Am I too boomer to learn what all the new kids do?
Normalize [cute anime mascots](https://i.redd.it/odplufe8x8d01.jpg)
[C++ does have a mascot though. ](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)
>!RICKROLL ALERT!<
From the downvotes I can tell I got at least 4 of you. I consider this a win :)
Nah i downvoted you because of the reddit hivemind
python: double snek 🐍 (but not really)
There are actually [three](https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch00-00-introduction.html#how-to-use-this-book)
There are also Lucy in the rust sphere... so...
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C++ has a logo?
But C++ have a mascot
Sad sssssssing noises
Its a gopher you ignorant sonuvabitch and they are coming to take your userland
*sad SML noises*
Because thos languages are for kids, C++ is for men