• @GreenKnight23
    1•12 minutes ago

    you just made me inadvertently realize that’s exactly why AI will never take development jobs.

  • @aesthelete
    2•1 hour ago

    It took me looking at unfamiliar programming languages and realizing that I could read most of them without really knowing them for me to realize I probably could learn to at least read another language.

    It’s been years since then and I’m still probably shit at Spanish, but just like programming languages regular languages were made by humans to communicate with other humans, you’re capable of understanding any of them given a reasonable amount of time and guidance.

    • AmonOP
      2•1 hour ago

      ‘Nocode’, scratch, NODE-red, etc.

  • @[email protected]English
    0•3 hours ago

    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.

  • lurch (he/him)
    23•10 hours ago

    i don’t think brainfuck or ook are actually meant for humans. more like against humans

    • @Shapillon
      2•4 hours ago

      imho they’re still made for humans. But the goal is to discuss them rather than code with them n_n

  • queermunist she/her
    7•9 hours ago

    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.

  • @A_Very_Big_FanEnglish
    21•13 hours ago

    …there are languages that aren’t written in plaintext???

    • @[email protected]English
      3•8 hours ago

      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.

  • Owl
    9•11 hours ago

    Text code is overwhelming

    Text is overwhelming (for me)

    I like spaced out, low density information. I can process it better.

    • @JustAnotherKay
      2•8 hours ago

      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?

      • @BatrickPateman
        1•2 hours ago

        I love how he said what he said and you dump this 5line paragraph on him 😘👌

      • Owl
        1•2 hours ago

        I don’t think there is a solution

        Maybe codeblocks or the Ue5 visual script thing xD

      • AmonOP
        1•1 hour ago
        import common_sense
from toolbox import AllenKey

<snip>

allen_key = AllenKey(size=4mm)
allen_key.screw(screw1)