AVincentInSpace

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

[citation needed]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

maybe they'll take inspiration from their avatar and next learn a programming language that's actually good

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

you should learn Rust. the type system is so comprehensive that half the time you can guess what a function does (or at the very least what you're supposed to pass to it) without a single line of human written documentation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

this should be required reading before anyone is allowed to leave a comment on Lemmy about voting

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

what kind of config file is short enough to fit on a single screen with line breaks?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Alright, the YAML spec is a dang mess, that I'll grant you, but it seems pretty easy for my human eyes to read and write. As for JSON -- seriously? That's probably the easiest to parse human-readable structured data format there is!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I see Programmer humor lemmy is continuing the fine r/programmerhumor tradition of non programmers posting vaguely technology related memes that have dick all to do with programming

[–] [email protected] 174 points 1 week ago (33 children)

Some data formats are easy for humans to read but difficult for computers to efficiently parse. Others, like packed binary data, are dead simple for computers to parse but borderline impossible for a human to read.

XML bucks this trend and bravely proves that data formats do not have to be one or the other by somehow managing to be bad at both.

[–] [email protected] 147 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Fun fact: Python is not named after an animal! It's named after the comedy group Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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