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TadoTheRustacean to Programmer Humor · 1 year ago

What are variables and semicolons for actually?

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What are variables and semicolons for actually?

TadoTheRustacean to Programmer Humor · 1 year ago
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  • marcos@lemmy.world
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    Do not expect to find anything like Javascript craziness on other languages. Or you’ll be severely disappointed.

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      There are plenty of languages with warts at least as bad as JavaScript’s. Bash, PHP, C, even relatively sane languages like Python still have huge issues like implicit variable declaration.

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        JS and PHP are by themselves in a special ring of hell.

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          Bash is a bigger one. Luckily there’s nushell

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      for (const item in items) { }
      

      !=

      for (const item of items) { }
      
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        Still better than

        for _, item in ipairs(items)
        

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