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Why do people faint at the sight of plain-text code? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Front end versus back end. The people who make programming languages are back-end developers. Their strengths lie with making something that works, not something that looks pretty.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I beg to differ

    I can read plain-text PHP, Python or Ruby code.
    I can't read plain-text, uncoloured HTML or Vue code.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I can't read plain-text, uncoloured HTML

    That's all we had back in the day. The only difference that jumps out to me is having attributes, but that's still not that crazy. Even back when I did web stuff, I used notepad++ without any particular higlighting the vast majority of the time for plain HTML (though not JS).

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