TIL about the greek question mark
Tell me, can you tell the difference between these two characters?
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Every syntax highligher shows this and VSCode even has a special case for this, this is not a real issue.
I just tried and it just turns into a proper semicolon and everything works. (Sublime Text).
That might explain that:
In Unicode, it is separately encoded as U+037E ; GREEK QUESTION MARK, but the similarity is so great that the code point is normalised to U+003B ; SEMICOLON, making the marks identical in practice.
Can you expect much else from someone who uses JS?
Like r/programmerhumor, this community is already full of people who literally never programmed anything more than Hello World before.
And just like Reddit you’re complaining about it for absolutely no reason. How about we try to be a bit more welcoming and a bit less gatekeepery.
That’s kind of an absurd position when the explicit purpose of segmented communities is to gatekeep content.
I realize my attitude is negative, but r/programmerhumor was not my crowd and it looks like neither is this community. There is no place where I can find memes about a large part of my life and I’m frustrated.
“Missing semicolon”, “light IDE is for psychopaths”, “JS sucks”, “AI is just if-statements”, I just can’t relate to those jokes and after the 100th repost I still don’t think they’re funny.
Your contribution appears to be solely whinging. If you want a certain type of content how about you post some and see if it catches on?
I’m curious, what would you prefer? Reposts suck, but dunking on the languages everyone agrees are bad and complaining about debugging is the only version of programmer humour I’m familiar with.
I found this blog article with some xkcd comics that I find hilarious, if that helps
XKCD is indeed awesome.
These are quite funny. Thank you
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See, that just sounds like the same joke but done better to me. It boils down to “JS bad”, only through the lens of the weird exception that makes the rule.
Lame
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my crowd
how about https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor ? this instance tends to attract more actual programmers
preemptive note: I’m not making a suggestion, I’m asking what you think.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
I realize my attitude is negative, but r/programmerhumor was not my crowd and it looks like neither is this community.
Sounds like a win for this community.
Just because a meme is not reality doesn’t mean it can’t be funny.
Did you expect anything different?
programming hello world is doing better than most people and I applaud and welcome beginners.
I am little more than an amateur myself, entirely self taught, and yet I’m forever digging into various bits of code for my marketing job, because paying someone $400 to fix a recalcitrant css style in a week and a half is worse than just doing it myself.
Who the hell tries putting Greek question marks in their code? Like, I get most compilers will show you what character each error starts at, but still.
I get this warning in my IDE (VS Code) so I feel safe:
The character U+037e “;” could be confused with the ASCII character U+003b “;”, which is more common in source code.
Well, there goes my diabolical plan, crushed like a bug under someone else’s shoe. Back to the drawing board, I guess.
Would be weird to be crushed like a bug under anyone else than someone else’s or simply put your own shoe.
I meant the plan not me being crushed.
This means we’re just late? Dang
yea… every modern IDE makes it extremely obvious of the unicode character…
SO… yea…
If you really wanted to be evil, zero-width space is the worst.
You don’t see it.
Laughs in just removing all semicolons because it’s not necessary in JS.
Great, now you just need to do the rest of the code.
Unicode was a mistake.
Вгь, Iмa gо sрrinкlе sоме cугilliс снаггастегs аll оvег sомеоnе’s lаrаvеl vаlidатiоn гules
(The аеос’s are the most evil ones)
Here’s a nice list of homoglyphs https://github.com/codebox/homoglyph/blob/master/raw_data/chars.txt
This file shows that the font my web browser uses is quite incomplete.
I thought zero width whitespace characters were the ones to go for if you want to be evil.
It’s been a while but doesn’t JavaScript work without semicolons and just fail silently?
Just remove everything that looks like a semicolons, problem solved. You don’t need semicolons in JS
Why did Unicode even allow these symbols even exist? What happened to using a single encoding for similar symbols like in CJK? Uriel must be rolling furiously in his grave rn
Because the point of unicode is to accurately depict every sort of writing regardless of format, not to make a neat table of every unique glyph. Fonts may want to render the two differently or treat them differently. Same reason why there’s a difference between an em dash and a quotation line mark
Same reason why unicode is full of random characters that only ever appear like thrice in some Russian coptic manuscript from the 3rd century - it’s about being able to depict something, not perceived usefulness
Also excuse my ignorance, but who’s Uriel? Because right now I just have the mental image of a very upset archangel which I’m guessing is not what you’re referring to. I mean it could be - I’m pretty sure unicode would fall under his domain of literature
every sort of writing regardless of format
💯💯😹👁️👄👁️ well 👏👏 said! 🍌🍑💦🫄🏻🎉🎉
sad CJK noises
Rust devs be like: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/25957#issuecomment-692590200
Use both the latin x and the cyrillic х as variable names in the same scope. Your coworkers will thank you.
The Greek question mark is a fraction of a mm thicker. :)
I got used to seeing the same thing between O and 0 in certain fonts. O is wider than 0.
Cool, but can you spot the difference between I and I?
That one I never could crack. | is longer so that’s easy.
lI makes it pretty simple to see - uppercase i is just a tad shorter.
