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What are you using? Notepad? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (8 children)

After 10 years of doing it for work, I still get frustrated about language issues.

But semicolons? It's 2023, why does your language have semicolons at all? If you're one of those poor sods stuck with Java, still it's not an issue, all IDEs will warn you, and basically complete half the code for you.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It's 2023, why does your language have semicolons at all?

    Explicitly constructing your intentions are features of a language.

    I LOVE types. I LOVE semi colons. I LOVE compiler errors.

    Why? Because the ALTERNATIVE is finding (if you're lucky) unexpected behaviour at run-time.

    I promise, I promise SO HARD, that memes about semi colons or "my code doesn't compile" are GREAT problems to have.if that's what's making you sad, your life is good and you're getting paid 10x too much.

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

    People who are annoyed by types have never had to spend weeks of their life hunting for a missing property on an object.

    Compilation errors are so much more preferable than finding out the same error at runtime.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Ada has got your back. Entire classes of runtime bugs in C code are eliminated by compiler errors.

    You can't even make a integer overflow unless you've explicitly declared that statement as unsafe.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Semicolons are not at all comparable to types.

    Types give structure to your program, prevent bugs and make team work easier. Semicolons are an artifact of the times it was thought multiple statements could go on a same line. Although I do admit, they make language design easier.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    They pay me more money than all of the other Devs because I'm the only guy willing to take on our existing stacks usage of shudders JavaScript. Most Devs I meet straight up refuse to learn it, let alone code in it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Semicolons are optional in JavaScript unless you are combining multiple statements on a single line, which is generally not something you should be doing anyway.

    I avoid them whenever possible. It encourages people to write poorly formatted code. But then I'm a python dev so I tend to be opinionated when it comes to whitespace.

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

    Just slap a formatter on there and call it a day. Semicolon or not, IDGAF, let's just stop with the formatting bikeshedding. There are more important things to think about. They don't encourage anything if you don't think about formatting.

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