• force@lemmy.worldEnglish
    265·
    1 year ago

    wtf kind of cursed programming language is this? JS? it’s so ugly, in no universe should a function look like that

    but obviously as a rust enjoyer i have to do it like

    fn max ⟨T: PartialOrd + Copy⟩(nums: ⁊[T]) -> Option⟨T⟩ {
    let mut greatest: ⁊T = ⁊nums[0];
    match nums.len() {
        0 => None,
        1 => Some(*greatest),
        _ => {
            for num in nums {
                if num > greatest {
                    greatest = num;
                }
            }
            Some(*greatest)
        }
    }
}

    edit: lemmy formatting REALLY hates references and generics it seems… time to go back to medieval times

    • stingpie@lemmy.world
      73·
      1 year ago

      Ah yes, rust. The language that somehow manages to manages to as verbose as possible, with as much jargonized shorthand that a computer could handle.

      • aidan@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Exactly, I don’t understand why languages have decided that every keyword needs to be as randomly minified as possible. fn, def, rune(ok that’s not minified, just a dumb name), fmt, std. Many of these things aren’t new, but programmers recognize descriptive variable names are important, the same should be true for keywords.