Lucky

@Lucky@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you look at some random project's source code for the first time how do you assess time, quality, and complexity at first glance?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if you don’t have a special setup, having a section telling you that is still a helpful thing to quickly assess a new project.

  I appreciate knowing that a project should Just Work with minimal setup so I don’t have to guess or make assumptions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite programming language?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Rider on Linux has worked great in my experience

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The argument for having tabs adjust depending on your ide sounds better than it is in practice. Someone formatting code to look nice with width 4 will look horrendous for someone who uses width 8.

  Spaces makes it uniform and captures the exact style the original dev intended

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is programming.dev federated with exploding heads?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How would a formal licensing system work for software engineering? How would they keep up with the rapid evolution in this industry?

  I believe in better education in this field, but the standard “engineer” programs from other fields don’t translate to software. Having the government codify today’s standards would stunt the industry as a whole and kill innovation. Imagine if they had done that in the 90s and said all programming must be waterfall, monolithic, relational dbs, and using c/Fortran/Cobol.

  Maybe I just don’t understand how other countries handle it though. I know my country would absolutely screw it up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's stopping WebAssembly from effectively replacing JavaScript?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d imagine one of those killer features is using a language with a solid standard library. Npm dependencies are notoriously complex because js as a language is missing basic functionality that is standard in other languages. Just a few years ago the Internet broke because “pad left” was pulled by it’s maintainer, that simply doesn’t happen in other languages

  From a maintenance perspective npm is a nightmare. From a security perspective it is worse. Being able to build your entire website using a language that eliminates most dependencies, and the ones you take on don’t pull in a zillion dependencies either, is absolutely a killer feature

  Of course that isn’t the full story and using js still has it’s advantages as people have already pointed out. If wasm closes the gap in those areas then it would absolutely be worth the switch