TIL about the greek question mark
Tell me, can you tell the difference between these two characters?
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Every syntax highligher shows this and VSCode even has a special case for this, this is not a real issue.
I just tried and it just turns into a proper semicolon and everything works. (Sublime Text).
That might explain that:
In Unicode, it is separately encoded as U+037E ; GREEK QUESTION MARK, but the similarity is so great that the code point is normalised to U+003B ; SEMICOLON, making the marks identical in practice.
Can you expect much else from someone who uses JS?
Like r/programmerhumor, this community is already full of people who literally never programmed anything more than Hello World before.
And just like Reddit you’re complaining about it for absolutely no reason. How about we try to be a bit more welcoming and a bit less gatekeepery.
That’s kind of an absurd position when the explicit purpose of segmented communities is to gatekeep content.
I realize my attitude is negative, but r/programmerhumor was not my crowd and it looks like neither is this community. There is no place where I can find memes about a large part of my life and I’m frustrated.
“Missing semicolon”, “light IDE is for psychopaths”, “JS sucks”, “AI is just if-statements”, I just can’t relate to those jokes and after the 100th repost I still don’t think they’re funny.
Your contribution appears to be solely whinging. If you want a certain type of content how about you post some and see if it catches on?
I’m curious, what would you prefer? Reposts suck, but dunking on the languages everyone agrees are bad and complaining about debugging is the only version of programmer humour I’m familiar with.
I found this blog article with some xkcd comics that I find hilarious, if that helps
XKCD is indeed awesome.
These are quite funny. Thank you
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See, that just sounds like the same joke but done better to me. It boils down to “JS bad”, only through the lens of the weird exception that makes the rule.
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Lame
my crowd
how about https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor ? this instance tends to attract more actual programmers
preemptive note: I’m not making a suggestion, I’m asking what you think.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
I realize my attitude is negative, but r/programmerhumor was not my crowd and it looks like neither is this community.
Sounds like a win for this community.
Just because a meme is not reality doesn’t mean it can’t be funny.
Did you expect anything different?
Who the hell tries putting Greek question marks in their code? Like, I get most compilers will show you what character each error starts at, but still.
I get this warning in my IDE (VS Code) so I feel safe:
The character U+037e “;” could be confused with the ASCII character U+003b “;”, which is more common in source code.
Well, there goes my diabolical plan, crushed like a bug under someone else’s shoe. Back to the drawing board, I guess.
Would be weird to be crushed like a bug under anyone else than someone else’s or simply put your own shoe.
I meant the plan not me being crushed.
This means we’re just late? Dang
yea… every modern IDE makes it extremely obvious of the unicode character…
SO… yea…
If you really wanted to be evil, zero-width space is the worst.
You don’t see it.
Laughs in just removing all semicolons because it’s not necessary in JS.
It is recommended. But in TS it is not necessary with rare exceptions.
thanks to eslint enforcing it in the default rules it’s necessary for most typescript projects
Except that you should use Prettier for formatting instead of ESLint. That said, semicolons are useless noise
Why should you use that?
It adds even more auto formatting rules so you can basically stop thinking about formatting entirely. I used to be opinionated about formatting but now I just go with whatever prettier does. It’s not always the best but it’s consistent and it’s a big chunk of my brain I can free up for things that matter. It also formats things safely so you don’t run into those weird edge cases where semicolons matter if you choose to turn them off.
Aren’t some of the scenarios for needing a semicolon logical-domain problems and not syntax issues? I wouldn’t trust autoformatting to spot a logical problem, though I also hope no one is writing code that flippantly. (as if honest mistakes aren’t common enough!)
Maybe there’s some edge case but in my years of using prettier I haven’t encountered one once.
Never used eslint. prettier is a must. semicolons are only needed to split some rare TS syntax lines.
I wouldn’t do it without an auto formatter. With prettier it will catch potential no semi colon issues.
You absolutely have to use prettier with JS. I don’t think there is auto adding missing semicolons in C/C++ though, it would be very useful.
I tried prettier and I thought it was literally making my code uglier. It’s eslint --fix for me.
Yes, true. I also did setup so that any missing semicolon will be added, because I got sick of not inserting them sometimes and then some code was without them and some was. (Before I tested just leaving them all out, out of fun, so I got into the habit of just leaving them out regularly)
Great, now you just need to do the rest of the code.
Unicode was a mistake.
Вгь, Iмa gо sрrinкlе sоме cугilliс снаггастегs аll оvег sомеоnе’s lаrаvеl vаlidатiоn гules
(The аеос’s are the most evil ones)
Here’s a nice list of homoglyphs https://github.com/codebox/homoglyph/blob/master/raw_data/chars.txt
This file shows that the font my web browser uses is quite incomplete.
It’s been a while but doesn’t JavaScript work without semicolons and just fail silently?
Just remove everything that looks like a semicolons, problem solved. You don’t need semicolons in JS
Why did Unicode even allow these symbols even exist? What happened to using a single encoding for similar symbols like in CJK? Uriel must be rolling furiously in his grave rn
Because the point of unicode is to accurately depict every sort of writing regardless of format, not to make a neat table of every unique glyph. Fonts may want to render the two differently or treat them differently. Same reason why there’s a difference between an em dash and a quotation line mark
Same reason why unicode is full of random characters that only ever appear like thrice in some Russian coptic manuscript from the 3rd century - it’s about being able to depict something, not perceived usefulness
Also excuse my ignorance, but who’s Uriel? Because right now I just have the mental image of a very upset archangel which I’m guessing is not what you’re referring to. I mean it could be - I’m pretty sure unicode would fall under his domain of literature
every sort of writing regardless of format
💯💯😹👁️👄👁️ well 👏👏 said! 🍌🍑💦🫄🏻🎉🎉
sad CJK noises
Rust devs be like: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/25957#issuecomment-692590200
Use both the latin x and the cyrillic х as variable names in the same scope. Your coworkers will thank you.
Yes. One is in the matrix movies and the other isn’t.
Hah, I will know it’s an error as I hardly use semicolons in JS. #rekt