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Programming Languages

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This is the current Lemmy equivalent of https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/.

The content and rules are the same here as they are over there. Taken directly from the /r/ProgrammingLanguages overview:

This community is dedicated to the theory, design and implementation of programming languages.

Be nice to each other. Flame wars and rants are not welcomed. Please also put some effort into your post.

This isn't the right place to ask questions such as "What language should I use for X", "what language should I learn", and "what's your favorite language". Such questions should be posted in /c/learn_programming or /c/programming.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (10 children)

You know what really sucks?

When I have a method that returns a Foo and like 300 places it gets called.

And then I change it to return an ever so slightly different Bar

Ah, now I need to go and update the code in 300 places cause the return type changed.

"Can't you just sed your codebase?"

Maybe, but it could cause some serious unintended dawizard

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (5 children)

The solution to this problem (and many others) is to use an IDE / editor which supports refactoring like that. Which is pretty much every IDE / editor unless you're using some very obscure language I think.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

anything that supports your language's language server protocol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yup, that's what I meant. I really don't see why anyone wouldn't use it nowadays.

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