Programming

How reliable is AI lke ChatGPT in giving you code that you request?

Hey all, I want to know how you all deal with management and pushing tech debt work. Here's a little bit of background on my current situation, and I'd love to hear how you'd deal with it....

So I started my coding journey with Python about 2 years ago. I primarily used IDLE which was super bare bones but was perfect for my needs....

I was looking at video reviews of git GUI clients. The best ones are pricey and we are two people occasionally editing some webpages for our business website. It’s hosted on GitLab Pages....

Comments in code are quite often a code smell. Let’s see what is suboptimal about comments and talk about some strategies to avoid them.

By all accounts, TypeScript has been a big success for Microsoft. I've seen loads of people sparkle with joy from dousing JavaScript with explicit types that can be checked by a compiler. But I've never been a fan. Not after giving it five minutes, not after giving it five years. So it's with great pleasure that I can announce...

Just wanted to see if you guys knew of any IDEs or Extensions for any languages that make GUI programming a little easier, like Visual Basic....

Hey guys. I've been trying to get kbin.social running on my local machine outlined here but I'm running into issues...

Thinking of starting a personal project to keep busy. I'm very good with databases and SQL but interested in branching out to more full-stack...

“* People ask LLMs to write code...

I've been using emacs since 2010. I use doom emacs now, but I have written my own overcomplicated config at one point in the past. I've grown used to it, but sometimes when emacs chokes on some input due to its single threaded nature I have time to wonder if there's something better for me out there....

All copy pasters - start to panic!

I feel like I am between a rock and a hard place and I would like some perspective and/or advice from other developers or programmers to help decide what my next course of action should be....

Hey there programmers, I know this is a more markup/typesetting deal, but I thought there might be people who are interested. After being dissapointed with many of the options out there for making ttrpg item cards, I made a LaTeX template for that exact purpose. I wanted it to be relatively easy to use, generate clean images,...

A way to talk about programming languages, and a plea to Think Different™

Many programming "best practices" taught today are performance disasters waiting to happen....

Post your favorite cryptic error messages or other strange happenings that leave you dazed and confused, but trying to continue.

i've been programming for some time and i've always had a solid command of the language i program in. will i have a problem creating complex and scalable applications because i don't use frameworks?

Commit Mono is an anonymous and neutral programming typeface focused on creating a better reading experience.

Object Pascal is a modern, readable, fast, type-safe, cross-platform OOP programming language. It is also easy to pick up.

Languages on the rise like Rust and Go are being quite vocal against inheritance and many engineers seem to agree. Why? And is it the fall of inheritance?

As title, basically duplicate /r/hackernews but as /m/hackernews

testing ASW

The value of a clean git history is often underestimated. I will explain one of the advantages based on the git bisect command.

Mojo is a new LLVM programming language designed as a superset of Python with the low-level performance of C.