• 26 Posts
  • 62 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 8th, 2023

help-circle











  • I feel the same way. Designing good, opinionated APIs is HARD, but it also provides the best experience for both the author and the consumer.

    • Prettier is the undisputed king of JS formatters because it has no options by design. You set and forget.
    • One of the reasons iOS is so successful is because they lock down their APIs and put strict standards on apps, making it hard to write something that doesn’t at least look good and slot into the OS well.

    Among other examples.


  • Tekhne@sh.itjust.workstoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlgot him
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 months ago

    In a world where your IDE and maybe also compiler should warn you about using unicode literals in source code, that’s not much of a concern.

    VSCode (and I’m sure other modern IDEs, but haven’t tested) will call out if you’re using a Unicode char that could be confused with a source code symbol (e.g. i and ℹ️, which renders in some fonts as a styled lowercase i without color). I’m sure it does the same on the long equals sign.

    Any compiler will complain (usually these days with a decent error message) if someone somehow accidentally inserts an invalid Unicode character instead of typing ==.