What is the most meaningless, silly, un-important programming-related opinion that you'll just continue to defend?
We're all familiar with Tabs vs. Spaces...
But what are some other pointless fights that you're always willing to fight about?
What is the most meaningless, silly, un-important programming-related opinion that you'll just continue to defend?
We're all familiar with Tabs vs. Spaces...
But what are some other pointless fights that you're always willing to fight about?
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But seriously. use spaces.
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Tabs and spaces?
Have you learned nothing from American "politics" or Twitter?
Compromise is weakness AND WEAKNESS IS DEATH!
I get the argument for spaces and all, but as someone who has vision problems 2-space indention makes my life way more difficult. I mean I'm not against adjusting my own workspace to accommodate the rest of them team since I'm the only person who has several vision impairments, but I'm honestly still not convinced the difference justifies the extra work.
The heading of this article is petty opinions, so there is no justification.
Just make your IDE to use space characters when you press tab. Done, everybody wins
Oh this is going to be good.
While I use spaces, my mom like a monster. She doesnβt like spaces because of tick tick voices.
WordPress is an over-complicated and out-dated framework that shouldn't be used for anything more complex than a plain-text blog.
π± I'm not going to discuss but gonna tell you're not 100% correct. βπ½
What a wholesome community π€
BloodPress
That sounds so metal π€
I don't agree it's overcomplicated but it definitely should be used only for the blogs and small shops in my opinion. For everything bigger it quickly becomes a disaster.
Naming coventions,
Readability of switch -case,
Curly style, egyptian or line separated,
Number of arguments in function signature
Any language is more suitable to a task than Javascript.
(It's only partially objective. I have technical reasons for my hatred of Javascript, but I try to accept that it has uses. I'd just sooner change careers than use Javascript in any measurable amount.)
I am of the personal opinion that JS is hot garbage.
I think that's the consensus.
I mean Javascript is the only language that's so bad that both Google and Microsoft had to create other languages that transpile to it (with Dart and Typescript) to avoid writing javascript.
OTOH, JavaScript may be the closest to Lisp an Algol descendant gets.
Anyone who writes more efficient code than me is pretentious.
πππ
But developers who use spaces make more money.
stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/deve...
The creator of Python said if he had to go back in time he would have made 2 space mandatory to stop this space vs tabs wars.
lol
Guido van Rossum prefers tabs [1].
I think putting any kind of semantics in things you cannot print is a big mistake. This includes newlines like used in JavaScript.
CSS-in-JS is a mess, framework or not.
What makes
styled-components
garbage?Because anything you can do in
styled-components
you can also do in plain CSS stylesheets + JS, using proper class names. You can even pass props and conditionally apply different class names.Yes, the same goal can be achieved with plain CSS stylesheets + JS, but I don't see why that makes styled-components garbage. I suppose it comes down to preference for minor improvements with one option for styling over another.
It's trying to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist.
Mac os and widows stink for programming they are way to locked down and aren't widely used in production environments. In my opinion linux of bsd should be used for everything except apple apps (all of them), windows apps, and situation where Visual Studio is required.
That most programming languages do not interoperate is evidence that it doesn't take a God to prevent human languages from interoperating.
EDIT: On one hand, every language should have been Lisp. On the other hand, how did even Lisp become split among Common Lisp, Scheme, and Clojure?
EDIT: Pandoc is an honorable struggle against God's will. It reflects on how GHC with different extensions are totally different languages, yet it is still one GHC.
"Bitcoin" is an uncountable noun. So is "bitcoin." So is "code," in the context of computer programming. No more of this "I wrote you some codes." No, no, no.
And I will die on that hill.
P.S. Slack Threads respect each others' time, these programming languages should be called programming notations, not programming languages, and hey this, over here, is a configuration language, not a programming language, Dvorak is better, they're capitalized as ReDiS and CEntOS, metaphors about the name of the Python programming language should involve more flying circuses than snakes, plural of status is status (from the Latin genitive neutral declension), DevOps is not a job title and DevSecOps is not a thing, and for some reason I can't stand multi-line comment syntax even when someone has made an effort to use it right. On a slightly more practical note come on man for the love of whatever God you hold dear use footnotes instead of endnotes in your publications. Some of us neither should nor can be arsed.
Wow, I'm a petty person.
We do not need so many programming languages. We do not need so many frameworks.
How many times are we going to "re-implement" the same function to read a file in memory or to send a HTTP message over the wire or to display a button with text that does something on click? π
Maybe no individual needs all these options, but not everyone will agree on which style of language/framework is the best. It's a matter of taste, so I think it's great that we have many to choose from.
I agree there's value in having so much R&D going on from multiple communities, but the question is "What is your pettiest programming related opinion" so I thought this qualified.
I believe WASI has the potential to change things down the line. We can all keep the languages we want, but at least we can stop writing basic functionality like "write a synchronous HTTP/2 server". So many replicated man hours in that.
Also, imagine how better in quality and in regards to security vulnerabilities if most languages were built on the same building blocks.
There's also the counter argument of centralizing vulnerabilities but hey, I didn't think this through :D
You may think Tabs vs. Spaces is a petty opinion, until you realize that using tabs makes a world of difference for visually impaired people.
Why we should default to Tabs instead of Spaces for an 'accessible first' environment
Alexander Sandberg γ» Jul 12 '19 γ» 3 min read
Never thought of this. I have a little bit of trouble with my eyesight and use very large font sizes (22+). Interested to try this π