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Anon tries programming in Java (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by LiamTheBox@lemmy.world to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] arc@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Could be worse, could be programming Javascript (or Typescript).

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

A text file with a script block and nothing else, containing a console log, is all you need. You already have all the boilerplate to run it in any computer. No extra dependencies, no installing anything. Literally just a notes editor app. This is a valid HTML file:

<script>
console.log("Hello World")
</script>

[–] Lysergid@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

I think you forgot to pollyfill your console.log and now you have some error in some script in some callback

[–] arc@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By that logic we should all program with .bat files

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Bash and bat scripts are really useful for that reason. You're making a bad generalization from my comment. But the premise from OP seems to be that a language's value is how hard it is to get started.

[–] Seeders@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I love javascript. Shit. Just. Works.

Even if you, the programmer, are a complete fucking moron, by god javascript will try to make your program run as long as possible.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even if you, the programmer, are a complete fucking moron, by god javascript will try to make your program run as long as possible.

I mean it might not work as intended but it'll run and not complain!

[–] Seeders@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

god damn right

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Javascript is a beautiful language where '3' - 1 = 2 but '3' + 1 = '31'.

[–] Seeders@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Exactly

[–] arc@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Javascript doesn't "just work". It's a language originally designed to glue actions to html elements and it is fundamentally broken in ways that will be never be fixed. Weird syntax, weird type coercion, horrible base types & functions, surprises galore. Even Typescript, which is basically a precompiler, is just JS with some type checking. The only reason anyone uses either is because it is ubiquitous - people have to use it.

[–] Seeders@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

It's the greatest language on the planet.