For me, I think it’s that most common-language things that I happen to look at are 500-line+ with non-obvious short names (initialisms? might be an issue with low-level). Some of it might be down to optimization or language features/requirements, or not using libraries. Though I also don’t hate whitespace so it may just be my brain.
The other side of the coin is that interpreted languages (being more readable) are slower(+single-threaded) and have other limitations/issues. I have some hope that Python’s update with JIT and no-GIL may change that, but integrating it into other tools is still an issue so I haven’t looked into it.
The one language that has clicked for me is Nim-lang (compiles-to-C, interop). I haven’t done enough real projects, but I like the syntactic sugar and UFCS. Not sure if that’s the best way to say it, but it’s like the options that exist can be used to make code more concise. Something that seems small like how you can write conditions or loops can make a big difference.
i don’t think brainfuck or ook are actually meant for humans. more like against humans
imho they’re still made for humans. But the goal is to discuss them rather than code with them n_n
Or Malbolge.
All programming languages claim to be for humans. Doesn’t make them good at it.
Nobody said all humans
Hey babe, wanna kill all humans?
Im sorry but which humans were whitespace and brainfuck made for.
obviously the sadistic ones! those PLs certainly weren’t made for the computer’s benefit
No-one said they had to be easily read for humans.
Different brains.
When I took over programming for my robotics team in highschool I switched from whatever visual flowchart bullshit they were using to robotc. I can’t make heads or tails of programming without actual words that literally say what the program does.
Making something to make humans suffer is still making it for humans
💯
If anything, that only proves the point even harder.
Wtf. Go look at the examples. W. T. F.
LLVM IR wasn’t made for humans
It… Kind of was though, IR gives us a way to translate higher level concepts to lower (but not the lowest) level representation. It also gives us a way to optimize before machine translation.
Text code is overwhelming
Text is overwhelming (for me)
I like spaced out, low density information. I can process it better.
I wish I understood this point of view better. I crunch through information, so I want it to be densely packed. I’d love to know why and how this helps you so I can better help my peers that are like you?
Thank you. If Ikea could write directions in Python, I would be sooooo happy.
…there are languages that aren’t written in plaintext???
I only code in emoji
Is this you?
I take it back
I’m sorry
I’m so, so sorry
Wouldn’t you rather want to code in this? https://github.com/Gen-Alpha-Inc/skibidi-lang
I’m going to retreat to my safe space and write some shim code in C now, thx
I was going to post the whitespace programming language but this wins
I heard there was a programming language where you programmed a tree, that you could only manipulate manipulate in a “IDE” that looked a bit like Microsoft Word and saved the “source code” as a binary file.
Found the infos: https://youtu.be/vcFBwt1nu2Ut=479
Off the top of my head, Microsoft Excel, Max/MSP, and Piet
I only code in binary-encoded programming languages.
I found the web dev
Malbolge
