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Programmer Humor @programming.dev cm0002 @lemmy.world 2d ago

What's stopping you from writing your Rust like this?

Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ @lemmy.ml 2d ago

What's stopping you from writing your Rust like this?

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Hang on, this is just a C++ joke slapped onto Rust.
- You could say they have rewritten the joke in Rust
  
  But you get the joke faster now.
- To me it just looks like you do not need the braces at all
- A funny, but incredibly subtle joke to do would be to do a post like this, but get the indentation subtly wrong somewhere, so something that's supposed to be inside a loop is outside according to indentation, but is inside according to braces.
I'm good at Python, and I don't know Rust. This looks fine to me. I've fully missed the joke.
- Same. Until you notice the column of curly braces and semi colons in the right margin.
  
  Lgtm ship it to prod
  
  Oh, so Rust is like JavaScript!
  
  Oh... Oh god
rustfmt

is stopping me from writing code like this, and I have never been more happier using it after viewing this.
- I'm going to write a tool that automatically adds the braces and semicolons to the column as you edit the code.
  
  I will call it rustfml
  
  Crap, thats what I was thinking.
  
  Please do, I'm waiting for it to get ported to other languages.
Then some jerk runs rustfmt and ruins all your hard work!
- Can't you fix the default format to this?
It took me way too long to notice the horror on the right
- My eyes!
My medication mostly.
I hate it with every fibre of my being but also secretly calmed by that column of statement terminators and brackets.

It's like the code representation of the Vancouver riots kiss photo.
- Why would that cause the same feeling?
  
  I'm not sure if you're taking the piss or not but I'm going to choose to believe you're asking in good faith!
  
  The code just feels... messy, unfamiliar, almost chaotic - but the semicolons and curly brackets in a neat little row, formatted in a satisfying way, is like an island of calm and order in the middle of a formatting clusterfuck.
  
  A moment of serenity in the middle of a riot, one may think.
This makes my deeply uncomfortable, like an itch I can't quite scratch.
- More like a scratch you just can't itch.
DwangoAC and the TASBot crew are maniacs in the best possible way. I would like to continue having a high opinion of him, hence I will pretend that this post does not exist.
My eyes! My eyes!!!!
Sanity
Oh... Oh! Well, that is creative.
Wow, so this is possible.

Formatting is so damn arbitrary. Somebody has to have tried storing just the parse tree on disk, right?
- The closest thing I've seen is Combobulate
- If you do that, you lose formatting and comments every time you load the source from disk
  
  Losing formatting other than what you've set in your deparser would be the point. Losing comments would be bad, but that seems easily fixable just by giving each comment block a symbol that points to it's contents.
I’ll allow it!
My humanity.
I like python like really really like it. But this should be a warcrime
No
This is why python has to be putdown
- I dislike Python as well, but it has it place. I only use it for quick code tests before doing it in other languages.
I don't know Rust. 🤷🏻‍♂️

(I mean, I don't know a lot of Python either so I can't even get the joke. 😞)
- In Rust and lots of other languages you have to end each statement with a semicolon. The semi colon is usually placed right after the statement, but in this example there's indentation after each statement before the semicolon so they're all aligned.
  
  There's also the curly brackets, they're padded in the same way, but those usually define where a scope (block) starts and ends making it even worse.
- Look at the right side of the code editor
  
  These scrollbars with issue indicators are becoming more and more fancy
  
  lmao I didn't even notice

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