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Found this beauty in one of my old projects from school (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/programming_horror

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[–] python 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

smh, could have used the short form ()=>{ instead of function 😤

[–] Deebster 10 points 1 month ago

I've been coding long enough that I still think of that as a fairly new thing in JS.

[–] Kissaki 10 points 1 month ago

In German we say "doppelt hält besser". Is there an English saying like that? "Twice is stronger/more stable/holds better."

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

Nested json 👽

[–] PoolloverNathan 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone's handed me nested base-64 encoded JSON before and to this day I am moderately annoyed at them.

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

unity kinda does this ! there is a json file wirh a base-64 encoded string (UTF-16 encoding) and is a completely different data structure with embedded json

[–] PoolloverNathan 2 points 1 month ago

I just had to add URL-encoded TOML to something due to a certain Rust crate's constraints.

[–] zygo_histo_morpheus 10 points 1 month ago

Why settle on cammel case ("saveGame") or upper cammel case ("SaveGame") when you can have one of each?

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

I WILL NOT USE ANOTHER LINE. I DON'T NEED IT

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

The best code has the fewest lines.

[–] logging_strict 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

... an adult enters the conversation ;-)

Easier maintainability is everything

The best code

Comes with tests what are easy to understand. As bugs are discovered, should be written in such a way, that it's very easy to add more test cases.

Fewest lines is not necessarily easy to maintain.

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

Lol, I should have been marking that with a satire tag

[–] logging_strict 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Whether you did or not, non-obvious what the answer would be.

Might get 1000 cringe worthy responses that can't withstand scrutiny

So my eyes need not bleed and my mind not splatter across the room, wrote a worthy response.

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

Lol