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[-] parlaptie@feddit.org 139 points 4 months ago

Hang on, this is just a C++ joke slapped onto Rust.

[-] puchaczyk 142 points 4 months ago

You could say they have rewritten the joke in Rust

[-] dave@feddit.uk 18 points 4 months ago

But you get the joke faster now.

[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

No, it's just impossible for it to leak out of a hole in the back of your head that you didn't realise was growing under your pony tail.

[-] Laser@feddit.org 84 points 4 months ago
[-] enemenemu@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago

To me it just looks like you do not need the braces at all

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] duckythescientist@sh.itjust.works 79 points 4 months ago

I'm good at Python, and I don't know Rust. This looks fine to me. I've fully missed the joke.

[-] logi@lemmy.world 162 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Same. Until you notice the column of curly braces and semi colons in the right margin.

[-] Arcka@midwest.social 21 points 4 months ago

Oh, so Rust is like JavaScript!

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

No, Rust lacks the semicolon elision rules of Javascript which make everyone always use semicolons in javascript because they're so horribly broken.

Rust is like ML, quite literally, not just by ancestry: The syntax is palpably ugly, but at least it's sane, regular, and concise where it matters.

[-] F04118F@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago

Undervalued comment right there. This is better than the OP

[-] duckythescientist@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

Oh... Oh god

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 71 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

rustfmt

is stopping me from writing code like this, and I have never been more happier using it after viewing this.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 60 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

Crap, thats what I was thinking.

[-] verstra@programming.dev 10 points 4 months ago

It could be run after git checkout and then rustfmt before commit.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Slow down satan

[-] nintendiator@feddit.cl 1 points 4 months ago

Please do, I'm waiting for it to get ported to other languages.

[-] TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 59 points 4 months ago

Then some jerk runs rustfmt and ruins all your hard work!

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 27 points 4 months ago

Can't you fix the default format to this?

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 50 points 4 months ago

It took me way too long to notice the horror on the right

[-] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago

My medication mostly.

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 29 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] lena@gregtech.eu 1 points 4 months ago

Why would that cause the same feeling?

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] lena@gregtech.eu 3 points 4 months ago

Ohhhh thanks for the explanation, I'm a bit stupid :3

Also, I didn't mean it in a bad way, a genuine question. Thanks for assuming it's in good faith ^^

[-] notabot@lemm.ee 16 points 4 months ago

This makes my deeply uncomfortable, like an itch I can't quite scratch.

[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

More like a scratch you just can't itch.

[-] villainy@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 months ago

This is why python has to be putdown

[-] Reptorian@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

I dislike Python as well, but it has it place. I only use it for quick code tests before doing it in other languages.

[-] poireCartable@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

My eyes! My eyes!!!!

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 months ago

Wow, so this is possible.

Formatting is so damn arbitrary. Somebody has to have tried storing just the parse tree on disk, right?

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 2 points 4 months ago

If you do that, you lose formatting and comments every time you load the source from disk

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] djehuti@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

Or by including comments in the parse tree. (& Yes, it is done various places for various languages and formats.)

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Do you have some examples?

(That is what I meant by giving them a symbol, maybe I worded it poorly)

[-] djehuti@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

The best example I have is a closed source one and I can't be more specific on what it is than to say that it's probably installed on at least one of your Apple devices (assuming you have any).

Implementation-wise, the syntax tree nodes have additional attributes that hold pre- and/or post-element text. What's on disk is the serialized tree. You edit a text version, and it's parsed on every edit so it doesn't have to be parsed again at evaluation time, and what's stored is the parse tree with enough whitespace and comment hints to reconstruct the text for editing.

This is a case where looking at the textual code is rare, but hundreds of results must get updated in realtime on every change. This might be enough of a hint as to what program it is.

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

The closest thing I've seen is Combobulate

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 9 points 4 months ago

Oh... Oh! Well, that is creative.

[-] stefenauris@pawb.social 8 points 4 months ago
[-] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I’ll allow it!

[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago

My humanity.

[-] GourmetLizard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago
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