• hydroptic@sopuli.xyzOP
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    9 months ago

    I grew up in a bit of a sketchy neighborhood and up until my mid 20’s all my jobs were the sort where everybody cursed a lot, plus Finns tend to curse a lot in general.

    I absolutely have not kept my cursing out of repositories, although looking at my last work project which had about 33000 lines all in all (maybe 2/3 written by me) when including comments, I was surprised to find it only 4 had “shits” and 6 “fucks”. One line in an example & test file had both:

    	zap.NewExample().Sugar().Errorw("welp, shit's fucked",
    		"IsBadRequest", IsBadRequest(err),
    		Field(err))
    

    and then there’s some comments like

    // - turn the unsafe.Pointer into a *[8]byte, allowed due to unsafe pointer fuckery
    
    // FIXME: this is just to make cli tool usage easier. It's a horrible fucking hack and should be
    //  nuked from orbit
    
    // FIXME: get rid of all this gorilla legacy bullshit. Could start by getting rid of the needless
    // Interface type
    
    • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 months ago

      Yeah, that’s the kind of thing I did only more often. Plus it was back when the conventional wisdom was that 50% of source code should be comments. So there was a LOT.

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      9 months ago

      Honestly I would love to work on a codebase full of profanity, let me know I’m not alone in my anger towards an inanimate object

      Also would help make it feel less corporate