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Anon tries programming in Java (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by LiamTheBox to c/[email protected]

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[–] lurklurk 28 points 1 week ago (25 children)

Hello World

30 minutes of boilerplate

writing imports

$ cat <<EOF > Hello.java
public class Hello {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    System.out.println("Hello world!");
  }
}
EOF
$ java Hello.java
Hello world!

[–] MooseTheDog 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Welcome to java, we have a couple unconventional ways of doing things, but overall I'm like every other mainstream oo language.

People: AHH! Scary!

Welcome to python. your knowledge of me wont help you elsewhere as my syntax is purposefully obtuse and unique. Forget about semicolons, one missed space and your code is as worthless as you after learning this language.

People: Hello based department

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh my god I got fucked by a python script once because of a single space. It took forever to figure out what went wrong

[–] TonyOstrich 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I refuse to code in Python without a really good IDE and linting like PyCharm. When using PyCharm it's very rare I have issues like this, because it catches them in one way or another, but I notice it catches those kinds of issues a lot when I'm coding soooooooo....

I have also setup the IDE to specifically color code comments like

' # End If and ' # Next

in the same style as their beginning statements as I find it much easier to visually scam through code when they are present.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You can't use Python without a linter. I have everything setup in vscode to use tabs yet copilot autocomplete insists on inserting random spaces everywhere creating indentation errors. The linter is essential to quickly see and fix them.

[–] lurklurk 3 points 1 week ago

Python has its drawbacks but it also has a pretty useful standard library so as a language for small scripts, one can do much worse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

**kwargs

"No, I don't use type annotations because they don't actually do anything. In fact I purposefully give this parameter different types for different behaviors. How is that confusing?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is possible to dislike both. For me SmallTalk-like languages are peak. Message passing for life!

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