this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2024
60 points (73.4% liked)
Programming
17313 readers
48 users here now
Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!
Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.
Hope you enjoy the instance!
Rules
Rules
- Follow the programming.dev instance rules
- Keep content related to programming in some way
- If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos
Wormhole
Follow the wormhole through a path of communities [email protected]
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Any language in which whitespace has syntactic value is intrinsically flawed.
Can't speak to your specific issues, but that's why yaml will always suck.
As a serialization format, agree 100%, but would Python really be better if it switched to braces?
Yes it would - look at optional braces for short if expressions in C family languages and why it's so discouraged in large projects. Terminating characters are absolutely worth the cost of an extra LoC
I'm fine with python, because it's consistent. In C I get nervous every time I see it.
goto fail;