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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

this is me, doing php and javascript on daily basis.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun fact, a glass of whisky is a good rubber duck substitute

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Gotta hit that Ballmer peak.

Same here. It's not so bad. It get's really bad when I have to work on older PHP5 projects, though. Or shudder WordPress projects without OOP.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is a poor craftsman who blames their tools, but I wouldn't be so poor if these tools weren't so shit.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

10 print "hello"
20 goto hell

I'm a bad programmer.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i have this pep talk with myself every time i have to switch languages for a project (especially between python & java) and i can't remember how to do it at first.

[–] einkorn@feddit.org 23 points 1 year ago

During university I gave additional lessons for lower semesters and at times had to juggle three languages: Java, Typescript and plain JavaScript for that one professor who thought TS sucks.

Coding on the spot got really messy at times.

[–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] python@programming.dev 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, but you weren’t the type I thought you were all the time

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The type is dynamic. It can be whatever you wish.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You say : the type is dynamic

We hear : the type is imaginary

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

You didn't need that opening parenthesis in python

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Try lua as a middle ground. It's object based but more classical with the syntax.

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It’s the best scripting language I know of, but man I hate dynamically types languages. I am so used to rust and C/C++ that reading any large script or program will drive me insane

And the whitespace instead of {} tokens…

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The whitespace doesn't bother me at all, but holy hell! Any time I'm trying to understand a Python program/library that's anything above a couple thousand lines of code, I instantly feel a burning hate for dynamic typing.

I love Python for scripting- in large part because of dynamic typing. IMO it's just not a language made for building large infrastructures.

[–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly.

I use it a lot on my systems for very simple scripts because I am significantly more experienced in python compared to bash.

I remember getting given a 10k line python script which “was the documentation” for an API i had to interact with using powershell. I hated life so much because of that stupid project.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I've had the joy of working on a python project with strict type checking enforced in CI and wow is it a different experience. Am a big fan.

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I can handle dynamically typed, but the whitespace thing kills me. I kind of really like PowerShell.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s no such thing as bad languages just bad programers anything outside of raw machine code is Just coping for a lack of skill.

[–] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Machine code? If you can't build a circuit to solve your problem it's a lack of skill.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly probably easier than writing in machine code.

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not a bad programmer, nix is just a horrible programming language

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Or maybe it’s the wrong language for the task. Macromedia flash is pretty good for animated websites, an enterprise asset management system, not so much.

My current cross to bear in an app written in Mulesoft because “it’s great with Salesforce” but completely unsuited for bulk data transfers.

Sucks to be stuck with bad choices made before you got there.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

I have to bounce around between languages so much I don't really think I'm fluent in anything anymore. I may not be a bad programmer, but some of my programming is bad.

[–] someacnt_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is no good programming language, even including the ones people do not use.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Haskell devs like to write code, not maintain it. A bunch of libraries get written, but get abandoned shortly after for something new & shiny.

[–] someacnt_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If only haskell devs were writing documentations, instead of going "type sigs is all the documentation you need!"

They moved from python?

[–] mogoh@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago
[–] yogsototh@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

Clojure is pretty decent.

[–] electricprism@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

What's the name of that ancient Java UX again?

Hm, why this sound so familiar :D

[–] Spitzspot@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"A bad workman blames his tools."

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

We don’t always have the luxury of choosing our tools, and some tools are garbage.

[–] the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is what I tell myself every time I find out the hard way what documented parts of Visual Basic didn't make it into VBScript.

[–] SsxChaos@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It's just node.js that's why.. you're a deno dude now it's just your company that is still delayed not you