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[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 81 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As much as this hurts, yeet; as an alias throw; is hilarious

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Of all the gen z lingo yeet is the best.

[–] Ropianos@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

You can yoink that word from my cold, dead hands!

[–] Jezza@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Funnily enough, that is a keyword in rust.

(it's a placeholder to remove any bikeshedding)

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 156 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I really really dig the fuckaround/findout. It paints the try/catch with a more dreadful undertone and reeks of mystery.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I love that one.

"Try" is too hopeful. "fuck_around" makes it clear that you know what you're doing is dangerous but you're going to do it anyhow. I know that in some languages wrapping a lot of code in exception blocks is the norm, but I don't like that. I think it should be something you only use rarely, and when you do it's because you know you're doing something that's not safe in some way.

"Catch" has never satisfied me. I mean, I know what it does, but it doesn't seem to relate to "try". Really, if "try" doesn't succeed, the corresponding block should be "fail". But, then you'd have the confusion of a block named "fail", which isn't ideal. But "find_out" pairs perfectly with "fuck_around" and makes it clear that if you got there it's because something went wrong.

I also like "yeet". Partly it's fun for comedic value. But, it's also good because "throw" feels like a casual game of catch in the park. "Yeet" feels more like it's out of control, if you hit a "throw" your code isn't carefully handing off its state, it's hitting the eject button and hoping for the best. You hope there's an exception handler higher up the stack that will do the right thing, but it also might just bubble all the way up to the top and spit out a nasty exception for the user.

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As well as the yeet keyword, I'm really friggin' diggin' this. [modernisation required]

[–] enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
#define yeet throw
#define let const auto
#define mut &
#define skibidi exit(1)

The future is now!

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The whole thing was pretty damn good all the way through. The only thing that had me wondering was

Tea

Until it got to

SpillTea

Well played.

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[–] mcqtom@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Should else be big_yikes? That seems situational to me.

[–] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

It’s actually a comment on the performance loss incurred from a likely failed branch prediction.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Ugh. Just

its_giving rizz ratios vibe;

No more needless nesting plz

[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Considering vibe is probalby float, I doubt any exceptions can be thrown there, you can eliminate another useless scope.

Even if it's not float, I'd consider burning alive anyone who overrides an operator like this anyway.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Float? Do you mean fax? Get with the program, old man

If you confused period and fax intentionally, I commend the effort.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Honestly, that's about an inch away from Python...

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 93 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And a decade or so ago it was LOLCODE that had me mildly concerned for the wellbeing of my peers.

[–] Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 106 points 2 days ago (1 children)
HAI 1.2
CAN HAS STDIO?
IM IN YR LOOP UPPIN YR VAR TIL BOTH SAEM VAR AN 10
    VISIBLE SUM OF VAR AN 1
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE

A perfectly reasonable language. None of this Gen Z rubbish.

Something something better times. Shakes stick at sky.

[–] EntirelyUnlovable@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Kids today just don't know real code

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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For some reason, this just sparked an ancient memory of the Geek Code, which was a sort of signature block you could append to your emails and online bios to show off how much of a geek you were in the geekiest fashion possible.

Goddamn I'm old.

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[–] straightjorkin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Big "you damn kids and your phones" vibes from this

[–] throwback3090@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 day ago

Every generation is peddled two insane concepts:

When they are young, they are told that they have a weird bizarre vernacular which sounds stupid to everyone else.

Then when they are old, they are told young people have a weird bizarre vernacular which sounds stupid to everyone else.

Then you die.

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[–] ScruffyDucky@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For programmers who need action (cross-generational):

https://lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC/

image

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago

Aliasing no_cap and cap to true and false.....

I might have to steal that.....

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago

It's so painfully good.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 27 points 2 days ago (6 children)

That's way better than my emoji based programming language.

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[–] sheepishly@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I fucking love it. Gen Z slang is so lighthearted and fun.

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[–] mogoh@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
play_stupid_games {
    // ...
} win_stupid_prizes(thePrize) {
    // ...
}
[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I always thought it was "prizes"

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[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, yes. A private method for working on a public field.

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[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd take that yeet instead of return...

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago

This is a better argument to adopt Rust than memory safety or even sane package management.

Good thing I'm sticking with GDScript.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago

This was by far the best way to explain current slang.
I got all of it No Tea

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Just needs a rap about the fun in functions performed by 60-year-old seniors

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

As if default keywords are the biggest deal-breaker.

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

ratios I need this and I'm an elder millenial

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[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

I've seen forms of this joke quite a lot in the last few years, and it never fails to make me laugh.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

slowly steps back and returns to basic and z80 assembly

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Too many capital letters in the gen z version.

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[–] CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Everyones first language should be brainfuck CMV.

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