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[–] mcqtom 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Should else be big_yikes? That seems situational to me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

It’s actually a comment on the performance loss incurred from a likely failed branch prediction.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As much as this hurts, yeet; as an alias throw; is hilarious

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Funnily enough, that is a keyword in rust.

(it's a placeholder to remove any bikeshedding)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Of all the gen z lingo yeet is the best.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

You can yoink that word from my cold, dead hands!

[–] kamen 1 points 13 hours ago

As if default keywords are the biggest deal-breaker.

[–] [email protected] 151 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I really really dig the fuckaround/findout. It paints the try/catch with a more dreadful undertone and reeks of mystery.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago

Yeah, I love that one.

"Try" is too hopeful. "fuck_around" makes it clear that you know what you're doing is dangerous but you're going to do it anyhow. I know that in some languages wrapping a lot of code in exception blocks is the norm, but I don't like that. I think it should be something you only use rarely, and when you do it's because you know you're doing something that's not safe in some way.

"Catch" has never satisfied me. I mean, I know what it does, but it doesn't seem to relate to "try". Really, if "try" doesn't succeed, the corresponding block should be "fail". But, then you'd have the confusion of a block named "fail", which isn't ideal. But "find_out" pairs perfectly with "fuck_around" and makes it clear that if you got there it's because something went wrong.

I also like "yeet". Partly it's fun for comedic value. But, it's also good because "throw" feels like a casual game of catch in the park. "Yeet" feels more like it's out of control, if you hit a "throw" your code isn't carefully handing off its state, it's hitting the eject button and hoping for the best. You hope there's an exception handler higher up the stack that will do the right thing, but it also might just bubble all the way up to the top and spit out a nasty exception for the user.

[–] noughtnaut 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As well as the yeet keyword, I'm really friggin' diggin' this. [modernisation required]

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
#define yeet throw
#define let const auto
#define mut &
#define skibidi exit(1)

The future is now!

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The whole thing was pretty damn good all the way through. The only thing that had me wondering was

Tea

Until it got to

SpillTea

Well played.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

NGL, that helped me actually understand the original function. It's been over a decade since I've touched anything related to C.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Ugh. Just

its_giving rizz ratios vibe;

No more needless nesting plz

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly, that's about an inch away from Python...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Considering vibe is probalby float, I doubt any exceptions can be thrown there, you can eliminate another useless scope.

Even if it's not float, I'd consider burning alive anyone who overrides an operator like this anyway.

[–] Lemminary 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Float? Do you mean fax? Get with the program, old man

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

If you confused period and fax intentionally, I commend the effort.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Everyones first language should be brainfuck CMV.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 3 points 19 hours ago

Good thing I'm sticking with GDScript.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Aliasing no_cap and cap to true and false.....

I might have to steal that.....

[–] straightjorkin 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Big "you damn kids and your phones" vibes from this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

Every generation is peddled two insane concepts:

When they are young, they are told that they have a weird bizarre vernacular which sounds stupid to everyone else.

Then when they are old, they are told young people have a weird bizarre vernacular which sounds stupid to everyone else.

Then you die.

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[–] 9point6 92 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And a decade or so ago it was LOLCODE that had me mildly concerned for the wellbeing of my peers.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 day ago (2 children)
HAI 1.2
CAN HAS STDIO?
IM IN YR LOOP UPPIN YR VAR TIL BOTH SAEM VAR AN 10
    VISIBLE SUM OF VAR AN 1
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE

A perfectly reasonable language. None of this Gen Z rubbish.

Something something better times. Shakes stick at sky.

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[–] cobysev 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For some reason, this just sparked an ancient memory of the Geek Code, which was a sort of signature block you could append to your emails and online bios to show off how much of a geek you were in the geekiest fashion possible.

Goddamn I'm old.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Psythik 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I fucking love it. Gen Z slang is so lighthearted and fun.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (6 children)

That's way better than my emoji based programming language.

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[–] ScruffyDucky 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For programmers who need action (cross-generational):

https://lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC/

image

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I've seen forms of this joke quite a lot in the last few years, and it never fails to make me laugh.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

This was by far the best way to explain current slang.
I got all of it No Tea

[–] AeonFelis 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, yes. A private method for working on a public field.

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[–] iAvicenna 6 points 1 day ago

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
play_stupid_games {
    // ...
} win_stupid_prizes(thePrize) {
    // ...
}
[–] bizzle 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I always thought it was "prizes"

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Too many capital letters in the gen z version.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd take that yeet instead of return...

[–] nialv7 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

This is a better argument to adopt Rust than memory safety or even sane package management.

[–] Psaldorn 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

ratios I need this and I'm an elder millenial

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just needs a rap about the fun in functions performed by 60-year-old seniors

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