• dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de
    1113·
    9 months ago

    I have a sneaking suspicion that most memes are from CS students, it all makes sense. People with jobs don’t have time to make memes, get angsty about languages, or syntax issues.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      53·
      9 months ago

      Unfortunately this idea tracks with a lot of online content. People who have time and energy to be extremely opinionated about things generally either don’t have a lot else going on, or have direct personal experience that led to their strong views. As people get older and life gets busier people seem far more likely to just do whatever they need to get by and shut up about it.

      Seriously, go look up some of the user demographics polls and analysis that was done against various subs on the old site. Most users are/were college age or younger even. Puts a lot of the “sillier” subs like relationshipadvice into context.

      • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz
        351·
        9 months ago

        This guy fucks^

        In my opinion this is a problem with the internet in general, younger people tend to crave attention and often receive the most online because of the anonymous platform it gives them.

        As I approach 35 I find myself half writing comments and deleting them because I don’t fucking care. This time I will press send

        • P1r4nha@feddit.de
          7·
          9 months ago

          Dude, imagine taking the time out of your day to actually make a meme (like the one posted). I really can’t be bothered.

      • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

        Yeah, if something in my life frustrates me, be it coding or otherwise, I search for solutions online and complain to friends “offline”, If I ever thought of making content, it would be on solutions I found of things that frustrated me,. and I’m not even that old.

    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
      103·
      9 months ago

      After 10 years of doing it for work, I still get frustrated about language issues.

      But semicolons? It’s 2023, why does your language have semicolons at all? If you’re one of those poor sods stuck with Java, still it’s not an issue, all IDEs will warn you, and basically complete half the code for you.

      • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        9 months ago

        They pay me more money than all of the other Devs because I’m the only guy willing to take on our existing stacks usage of shudders JavaScript. Most Devs I meet straight up refuse to learn it, let alone code in it.

      • nathris@lemmy.ca
        21·
        9 months ago

        Semicolons are optional in JavaScript unless you are combining multiple statements on a single line, which is generally not something you should be doing anyway.

        I avoid them whenever possible. It encourages people to write poorly formatted code. But then I’m a python dev so I tend to be opinionated when it comes to whitespace.

        • folkrav@lemmy.world
          3·
          9 months ago

          Just slap a formatter on there and call it a day. Semicolon or not, IDGAF, let’s just stop with the formatting bikeshedding. There are more important things to think about. They don’t encourage anything if you don’t think about formatting.

          • Aa!@lemmy.world
            21·
            9 months ago

            This is one of the things I like most about Go. Formatting is already defined and handled by go fmt. Takes out all format arguments before they start.

    • SUPAVILLAIN
      3·
      9 months ago

      shit I am a CS student and I barely have the time for memeing about the languages I’m using between all my other classes, and the other stuff I study in my downtime. I’m just stoked to get a slapdash of code together and actually have it do what I want it to the first time around.

    • CannotSleep420English
      1·
      9 months ago

      That would also explain all the memes complaining about lack of comments.

  • Xatix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    293·
    9 months ago

    Shouldn’t it be “The amount of missing semicolon memes is too damn high;”?

  • Steeve@lemmy.caEnglish
    191·
    9 months ago

    What are you using; notepad?

    (I don’t know what semicolons are for in English)

      • sheogorath@lemmy.world
        42·
        9 months ago

        Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.

        • Kurt Vonnegut
        • Troy@lemmy.ca
          71·
          9 months ago

          Unpopular opinion: I dislike Vonnegut and his particular brand of snark. His anti-intellectualism drives me mad.

  • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
    101·
    9 months ago

    IDE is bloat; return to text editor.

    (Xed is more than sufficient for the relatively small scripts I need to write. It even does syntax highlighting and bracket closing.)

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
    81·
    9 months ago

    learning to use a raspberry pi. the interpreter that works on the mini Python I’m learning seems to have no linting so when I missed a colon in a for loop it took me ages to find.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      9 months ago

      use something like vscode with ssh - remote to code in a real editor with proper linting, or code in a proper environment and then use a git repo to deploy to the pi, idk. If what you are doing is basically ssh-ing to the device and opening a console editor (a well set up vim does have linting, but anyway) it’s no wonder it is being hard to work on it.

      It’s better to invest time investigating proper tools to work on than to bruteforce the work and then spend tons of time hotwiring everything. Hotwiring code is not the end of the world but if it reaches a point where the tools frustrate you, search for alternatives dammit.

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        9 months ago

        I have vscode, I’m just following the tutorial and this particular software works with uploading to the pi and runs the code and I didn’t want to get distracted following other ones about how to shift those functions to other software, I just wanted to play

        Does vscode work with the pi out of box?

        • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Iirc, when you try to connect to a device through the SSH-Remote extension it downloads whatever it needs in the device and you connect to it. I have not connected to a Pi yet, but in any other cloud based or local linux machine it has worked flawlessly so I don’t think it will be different. The terminal window also opens a ssh’d terminal, so you can do whatever you do locally, through the app.

          I did a quick search and the first link stated “All you have to do is to install the Remote-SSH extension on VS Code” so I guess that yeah, it works just like any other linux device. As an addendum, the folder browser UI works as a sftp drag-and-drop window, you can drop local files and they will get transferred into the SSH’d device.

      • blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        I will never understand people in programming who do stuff in tedious/inefficient ways without stopping to consider the alternatives. 9/10 if it feels stupid, it probably is.

    • cole@lemdro.idEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      you can install VSCode on the raspberry pi even, it’s just linux

  • Saigonauticon@voltage.vnEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    Eh, sometimes the IDE from a chip manufacturer is bad enough that I go back to using a text editor.

    Glares at Microchip Studio

    Their on-chip hardware is great though. In everything else I’ve found tons of bugs. Even the cables that come with their dev kit have bugs.