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[–] Rooki 90 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Python has to be another clown with their error messages

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

Most python error messages are pretty straightforward so I legitimately don't know what you're talking about

[–] UnfortunateShort 26 points 1 year ago

I was gonna say, next to C++ you better don't shame other languages for their errors. Otherwise I wish you some "fuck you: error in library used in library used in template of template:: some template object is not correct type of template obejct"-type bullshit.

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

Which part in particular? They were improved in 3.10 and 3.11

[–] noughtnaut 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

3.11 is Python for Workgroups, right? Feels like it came out ages ago....

[–] Mechanite 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hoping Python NT will be coming out soon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure why Python 2000 is slated to release in 2030 but respect.

[–] superduperenigma 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Fades 1 points 1 year ago

they’re gonna be looking for army guys

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"I dOnt lIkE tYpEsCrIpT. iT aDdS uNnEcCeSsArY cOmPlExItY."

Well I don't like the PTSD I have from trying to refactor your God awful native JavaScript codebase. It has enough magic strings to summon the Dark Lord himself.

[–] thenofootcanman 5 points 1 year ago

Totally man. Let me just cast this date to a date so I can be sure its a date.

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

"you don't need types, just use unit tests!"

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Say what you want about it, but it will not go down without using everything in the vicinity as a weapon if ammo runs out. While others go down, they will be kamikazeing themselves to get the job done.

[–] MrPoopyButthole 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Ddhuud 2 points 1 year ago

.catch( error => { } )

??

[–] SpaceNoodle 9 points 1 year ago

You try to reload your gun, but it ends up just sticking bullets on the end.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I write JS/TS daily and I agree with this lol.

I’ve offset it with Golang lately.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ehhh, golang’s pretty down there for me too. Sure, you have types, but the way you “implement” an interface is the sussiest thing I’ve seen in most well-known programming languages. Not to mention all the foot guns (pointers for nullables is a common one, and oh, if you forgot that a function returns an error, and you called it for its effects, you’ve just built a possibly very silent bomb) you end up building into your programs. I use in prod, and I get scared.

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

I’m pretty new to it. The types and struct stuff are a bit hand-wavey, but I like how quickly I was able to ramp into it. I built a simple API with it in a few hours.

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

2 things I like about golang is just 1) the ease of getting someone to start work, and 2) goroutines. I have no complains about goroutines cause I’ve barely used it, and when I do it’s been fine. The first point though, I’d say the simplicity of the language is a double-edged sword — it’s easy to learn with little surface to cover, but it forces you to implement a lot of basic machinery you find in other languages by yourself, and so your codebase can get clunky to read really quickly, especially as your project grows.

Not trying to dissuade you from learning golang tho. I think it’s a good language to learn and use, especially for small simple programs, but it’s not the great language many try to say it is. It’s… fine. There are many reasons why it grinds my gears, but I’m still fine with using it and maintaining it for prod.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

“Clunky” - this hit it on the head for me. When I was initially getting started, some of the setup and boilerplate felt awkward. It feels very barebones, which I can see the benefit if you’re not a fan of opinionated, but as a project grows, it seems like a dark corner that technical debt and spaghetti code would amass.

[–] AeonFelis 9 points 1 year ago

Go has the pitfalls you'd expect from an abused configuration language, not from a modern statically typed language.

[–] PP_BOY_ 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Until today I thought being a typist just meant you could press keys quickly

[–] desmosthenes 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

lol is the web a joke to you? jk

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

I’m not really sure why this image chose to put JavaScript and python in with C# and Rust. Just one of those anti-JavaScript nuts

[–] desmosthenes 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I still use PHP in like 1/8 client projects - it’s fast as shit now ^^ lolol

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

I’ve been a PHP developer for 20 years. I concur.

[–] Ddhuud 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fatal error

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That is, indeed, the case.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is some great content, but where would vbscript and .wsf files sit (do they even get to join the team?)

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

Well, who do you think they’re hiding from?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I disagree with the meme but mostly because I think all programming language are fucking clowns at times. I Don't think that you should use typeless languages for huge projects but I also think that for a little Js library, Js is fine.

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