To truly appreciate our languages, we must know their faults. So what's your pet peeves and biggest pains in you side about your favorite language you use everyday?
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To truly appreciate our languages, we must know their faults. So what's your pet peeves and biggest pains in you side about your favorite language you use everyday?
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In Python, if you write multiple strings adjacent to each other, Python concatenates them. For me, this often leads to annoying bugs like
Ouch! Haha yeah I can see how that hide it self well!
You can thank ISO C for that one:
Not that python directly inherits the behavior, but they probably decided to go with that behavior based on how C does it.
For me I would say in ruby how easy it is for
nilto passed around which then causescan't do #x for niland then you're like, "why is it nil?" it's even worse when you getnilin weird strange places.In Ruby, the fact that the normally-named
filterfunction is namedselectorfind_allis really annoyingAnd oh gosh way too many methods for the objects that is insane. You can easilly cut it down to 2 times less because there is a lot of aliases too
When you see that one article saying that "this language X is so dead!" and it makes you doubt your life choices.
Golang is one of my favorite languages and the thing I find the most frustrating is the lack of architecture standards.
Up until recently, it's been a wild west as far as package management and project setup. Where do you put your code? How do you structure your folders? What web frameworks are actually worth investing into?
Basically same issues Node had early on. It's getting MUCH better but I feel like it's still a problem.
I feel like you just dont need a framework in Go, also hasn't the location of where the code should go been in the documentation since release?
number.toFixed(x) will return a STRING in Javascript. Omg that’s nuts!
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Granted that its goal is to provide a representation with a fixed amount of decimals, what would you use instead of a string?
Golangs lack of enum support is easily the most annoying thing about the language for me.
Currently I have a ruby script that has an enum schema and it prints out golang code for each enum it has all of the constants, an array of all the values, and a function to test if a given object is one of the enum values.
If Python is going to use whitespace as syntax (good idea) they should only allow either tabs or spaces. You can't mix them, so you get invisible syntax errors.
It’s not really the language itself, but the JavaScript Front end framework ecosystem changed A LOT in the past decade, and it was jarring to switch frameworks every two years.
The only thing that can be bad is your favorite programming language becoming so (too) popular that it eventually looks like shit!