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What's your favorite programming language and what about it do you like?

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slowpowke@nano.garden
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Python, and I like that I know it

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Subverb@lemmy.world
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I’m an embedded systems C programmer with passing familiarity with Python. To me it seems ridiculous that a language relies on whitespace for blocking. Is that true?

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esscew@lemmy.ml
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Yes, unfortunately. There is a lot of tooling around it but it still feels bizarre after years of using it.

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Subverb@lemmy.world
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I’m anal about curly braces in C. I never code without them because I don’t like being ambiguous.

I never do

if(i=0) return 0;

or worse

if(i=0) return 0;

I do

if(i=0) { return(0); }

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Kacarott@feddit.de
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It only requires consistent indentation inside blocks, which is what any good code does anyway for readability. So the main difference then is just that you no longer need the redundant curly braces.

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cocobean@bookwormstory.social
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I had to use Python for a bit at work and it was confusing

pipenv, venv, virtualenv, poetry…wtf is all this shit

a.b vs a['b'] vs a.get('b')…wtf is a KeyError

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cocobean@bookwormstory.social
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People love to complain about npm and node_modules, but I think they were on to something with the simplicity of it.

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richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one
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What happens in other languages you use when you try to access a non-existing key for a hash/map/dict?

What language do you use that accessing an object attribute is the same that accessing a dict key?

What knowledge do you have (or not) that KeyError is a mistery to you?

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cocobean@bookwormstory.social
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Return undefined.

Typescript.

Why error? Just return undefined. Simple, no try/catch needed.

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Hallainzil@lemmy.world
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What language do you use that accessing an object attribute is the same that accessing a dict key?

Javascript / Typescript.

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