vascorsd

vascorsd, 6 days ago

In general the official #scala API docs are very very lacking and generally suck.

Methods have barely any description on them. There are no examples in most methods to understand them. Important methods and collections lack explanation of their characteristics related to performance, runtime, O notations of each etc. Barely describe where each is more appropriate vs others, etc.

🫣

vascorsd, 5 days ago

@dvim oh that's some nice code you got there. I'll be checking it, there's some stuff I also wanted to do there.

I had tried to use the process calling of fs2 some time ago but it was confusing to me how to deal with some of the streams. Eventually I'll try it again.

With the code size and libs there it should be possible to get things working with scala native. At least cats and fs2 I know should work.

vascorsd, 5 days ago

Doesn't really help if you regularly listen to some nippon nerdy music from sites like https://listen.moe or https://r-a-d.io

:blobnom:

Just happy that after so many years they keep working 😅

vascorsd, 5 days ago

@davesmith00000 yeah that works. I ended up also using some of those extensions for the enum members as well for their companion objects. Like

extension (so: Str.type) {  
 def empty = ...  
}  

Kinda works, which is nice.

It's a little frustrating that I can't do

extension (_: Str.type) or extension (Str.type).

Extensions and enums kinda pair well with each other.

vascorsd, 6 days ago

Well doesn't matter. Solved the problem in another way 🫣

vascorsd, 5 days ago

@ragb and 3 is the best number ever invented. Close to it and maybe better is 5! 🍌

vascorsd, 5 days ago

@dwardoric not the tabs 😭. I'm highly allergic to it 😅.

I think you're right about deep nested code, and it absolutely helps there.

But I bet most code out there is not simple and straightforward and small. Most code ends up with nesting and many lines. At least enterprise grade code I've seen over the years. I believe the defaults should be optimized for what the code ends up being eventually.

A simple method is very likely to grow in size and scope.

vascorsd, 5 days ago

@enmodo oh, there were some languages that try that model, where the code editing is irrelevant to the underlying code data that is saved/kept in the repo.

The problem being that it doesn't play well with diffs/git I think 🤔.

But it's an interesting concept, I've wondered about it previously.

I'm kinda sure that unison is like that - https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/tour/

vascorsd, 5 days ago

@dwardoric it kinda really helps with the eye strain and the mental parsing and grouping of things. I felt it too.

It was kinda unexpected for me since I've been convinced forever that the 2 space indents were a good thing we had.

vascorsd, 5 days ago

@dwardoric seeing too deep nesting and the code running off the screen to the right kinda screams at you to try and simplify it earlier and to move things to other functions 🤔

vascorsd, 5 days ago

@enmodo true that 😌.

The few hours that I was trying the newer syntax just left me confused, annoyed and frustrated.

Too many errors being thrown to my face about incorrect indentation or can't parse something, expected another.

Nothing beats putting a bunch of code lines, triggering the formatter and it actually working and putting things in the correct places and correct interpretation.

Although I can see some use cases and how some people may like it, I don't think it's for me rn :yell:

vascorsd, 5 days ago

@ragb tabs are the worse thing ever invented 😡.

I fondly remember my early programming days and some clang code that had those mixed in and it was horrible everytime I wanted to change code or align things.

Ptsd for life.

The good old days where I didn't know about these holy wars or what indenting or wtv those concepts were.

Simpler times 😌

Not to mention all the 4 or 5 different places where one usually wants to read or change code all being inconsistent with that.

vascorsd, 5 days ago

@ragb it's easy to mix them. For understanding when and how to use them you need a deep understanding of what they are meant to be used for, which newbies won't know or understand earlier in their career.

It happened a lot having parameters that you want to align and variable declarations and other things, but then having the tab key not expanding automatically to spaces means that you will use it in the middle of code to try to align things accidentally and inherently things will end up mixed.