this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2023
166 points (79.6% liked)

Programming

17489 readers
105 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

  • Follow the programming.dev instance rules
  • Keep content related to programming in some way
  • If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities [email protected]



founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not wrong to work with modern languages, but don't pretend that you have the answer to the debate if you don't work in a field where it applies.

Linting bash/perl is a TERRIBLE idea. Consider the following, extremely common piece of code (perl has equivalent syntax as well):

#!/bin/bash

cat > testfile < < EOF
    test1
	test2
EOF

(lol lemmy bug found, can't write the actual "left angled bracket - left angled bracket" syntax, it somehow truncates the comment)

OTOH if you use a modern auto-formattable language, then you can auto-format to tabs with a git hook or IDE plugin (and back for committing) if you want, so the debate doesn't matter in that case. It goes both ways.