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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As someone used to working in c# (and before that Java, C++, Visual Basic, and Pascal) I haven't seen any brace or semicolon related errors since the days of Borland IDEs (any remotely self respecting IDE will highlight them and refuse to compile, these days), but working with Kotlin has shown me that I, at least, read code with semicolons slightly faster than code without.

There's a reason we use punctuation when writing, and the same applies to code.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Borland IDEs

Ugh, you just gave me Turbo Basic flashbacks. My favorite thing was that variable names could be as long as you liked and mixed case, but the compiler only used the first two letters and case insensitive at that. So "BatShitCrazy" and "BALLPARKESTIMATE" actually referenced the same variable.