• monk@lemmy.unboiled.info
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    11 months ago

    Homoglyphs? Invisible text? Bidirectional text? Just highlight every line that goes beyond ASCII with yellow warning colors and require to vet it. Maybe make localization data an exception.

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      11 months ago

      This doesn’t work for code bases written in non-English languages. Especially east asian languages.

      Any line containing an identifier that is also a word would be highlighted.

      More and more programming languages are supporting unicode identifiers for this use case.

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        11 months ago

        So it won’t work for 0.0001% of all github projects.

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          I’d suggest to have the occasional look at the “most popular repos” ranking. It’s about 50% Chinese.

          Super-interesting sometimes as it shows completely different tech trends.

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          11 months ago

          I know right.

          It’s wild that an American company primarily doing business in the West would have a bias towards English.

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        Yeah, just don’t. Allowing to code in anything other than English is a disservice, plain and simple.

        Inb4, I’m not being US-centric, Latin ain’t even my native alphabet.

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      11 months ago

      Very simple solution actually. Here I was thinking we’d need AI to solve it.

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    Website really struggled on mobile. Anytime I swipe to view the longer code lines in the code blocks it would open the sidebar. Very annoying.

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    11 months ago

    TL;DR: you could adopt good programming practices like “don’t shadow mutable state” and “put constants first in a comparison” or you can pay us money so we show you obscure attempts to exploit your bad programming in code review … maybe …