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Me, trying to learn flat assembler: “What is even an object?”
Me, as a professional Haskeller: “What is even an object?”
Haha! Reminds me when I arrived in a team whose API accepted JSON and all the booleans were “True” or “False” (meaningful case, obv.) That was fun.
This certainly Tcl’d my funny bone.
God, that reminds me of the debate on XML that I had with a developer about fifteen years ago.
Both our companies were working for a client who needed to publish product catalogues in several languages twice a year.
They had implemented a sort of Content Management System which they used with a plugin to feed data into Quark Xpress files as well as their website, IIRC. Cross-media publishing, essentially, and they had their own little set of format instructions to make words appear in bold, different colors, etc.
Since my company was tasked with translating the text into various languages, I suggested they come up with a way to store their data as XML. The standard tools in the translation industry can be easily customized to work with that, and XML would be a good way to future-proof their software. After a lot of delaying, grumbling, and ho-hum, they agreed to implement this plan.
Lo and behold, when the first meeting on the new XML format came around they showed it to me for the first time and… everything was in CDATA sections. Entire paragraphs of text with proprietary formatting instructions. 😐
When I tried to explain, very politely, and very patiently, that this was not going to work, the lead dev started insulting me. I swear to God, I’ve never been this close to punching someone in the face at a business meeting. 🤬
Thankfully, the client understood the issue and we eventually got an XML-based data exchange going. It is probably still in use today.
This is why I ask for the schema at the same time as asking for (even example) data at the start of a project. Don’t tell me you have the data, give me proof there’s a standardized structure, or the length of the project just tripled.
There are two genders: string and null
There are eight genders: null, undefined, false, NaN, 0, “0”, {}, and “”.
nil
[Laughs in computed TypeScript strings]
I am strongly strongly statically typed pilled and I will not apologize.
But what about the absraction and portability and the inheritence and bunch of other buzzwords?!
Every compile error I work through is a runtime error I don’t have to troubleshoot by surprise. 🙏
100%. Though I can’t imagine the meme is actually saying that things being stringly typed is a good thing.
where my Ada bros not committing war crimes at?
at the end of the day everything’s a []u8 if you want it to be
If it’s not getting used in a mathematical function, I’m making it a string
stoi and atoi got ur back, homie
make everything a string then cast all data every time you want to use that data in a variable.
I took great pains last week to convert a big python project to make it typed. (shoutout to MonkeyType)
It’s so much nicer to develop now…
Oh that’s a neat library. Type annotations in python are really nice, and you don’t have to add tooling like when you switch from JS to TS.
Yeah, I stopped developing in JS for good ~1.5 years ago. After using TS, it seems crazy to go back.
Cat type?
No, just meow.
No, i’m asking what type the cat is.
Perl!
Simply make everything an array of bytes
Remember Tcl
I fucking love tcl
Surprising amount of Tcl love in this thread
The almighty
package require Expect. The muse of automation.
🤢
