Why do people faint at the sight of plain-text code?

[anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I heard there was a programming language where the "code" was a syntax tree, that you could only manipulate manipulate in a "IDE" that looked a bit like Microsoft Word.

[nichtburningturtle@feddit.org]

[shiggles@sh.itjust.works]

Making something to make humans suffer is still making it for humans

[spacenoodle@lemmy.world]

I take it back

I'm sorry

I'm so, so sorry

[buboscandiacus@mander.xyz]

Text code is overwhelming

Text is overwhelming (for me)

I like spaced out, low density information. I can process it better.

[nichtburningturtle@feddit.org]

Wouldn't you rather want to code in this? https://github.com/Gen-Alpha-Inc/skibidi-lang

[umt@lemmynsfw.com]

OOO/README.md at master · AlexanderOttenhoff/OOO

OΟО Is a Turing complete programming language derived from Ook! That leverages the benefits of Unicode - OOO/README.md at master · AlexanderOttenhoff/OOO

GitHub (github.com)

[lurch@sh.itjust.works]

i don't think brainfuck or ook are actually meant for humans. more like against humans

[spacenoodle@lemmy.world]

I'm going to retreat to my safe space and write some shim code in C now, thx

[jasondj@lemmy.zip]

Thank you. If Ikea could write directions in Python, I would be sooooo happy.

[urfavlaura@lemmy.ml]

LLVM IR wasn't made for humans

[idunnololz@lemmy.world]

Im sorry but which humans were whitespace and brainfuck made for.

[queermunist@lemmy.ml]

Different brains.

When I took over programming for my robotics team in highschool I switched from whatever visual flowchart bullshit they were using to robotc. I can't make heads or tails of programming without actual words that literally say what the program does.

[beardedgingerwonder@feddit.uk]

No-one said they had to be easily read for humans.

[joyo@lemmy.ml]

I found the web dev

[heavy@sh.itjust.works]

It... Kind of was though, IR gives us a way to translate higher level concepts to lower (but not the lowest) level representation. It also gives us a way to optimize before machine translation.

[justanotherkay@lemmy.world]

I wish I understood this point of view better. I crunch through information, so I want it to be densely packed. I'd love to know why and how this helps you so I can better help my peers that are like you?

[skepticpunk@lemmy.world]

Or Malebolge.

[jdeath@lemm.ee]

obviously the sadistic ones! those PLs certainly weren't made for the computer's benefit

[shapillon@lemmy.world]

imho they're still made for humans. But the goal is to discuss them rather than code with them n_n