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Why do people faint at the sight of plain-text code?
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So why did we do such a bad fucking job
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Rednax
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Rednax
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Do you mean that programming languages are hard to read/write, or that the languages themselves are poorly designed?

In the former case, I invite you to read machine code. Not assembly, but straight machine code. Just zeros and ones as far as the editor can see. Any popular language is better than that.

In the latter case, I invite you to look at the design of an arbitrary natural language. Weird grammer rules, regional differences, loan words that don't fit in, etc. No programmming language is worse than that. Although I would argue that Javascript has all of those problems too in some degree.

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I mean that they are poorly designed. And year regular languages are just as badly designed. I'd say c++ is just as bad as javascript tbh.
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Boomer Humor Doomergod
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If that's the case I highly suggest you check out Golang. It's got strict types like Java but it's a lot more intuitive and expressive than either Java or C#.

My favorite language is Ruby, for those same reasons, but Go would be a better fit for someone who likes strong typing with a certain je ne sais qoui.

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The Ramen Dutchman
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The Ramen Dutchman
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I beg to differ

I can read plain-text PHP, Python or Ruby code.
I can't read plain-text, uncoloured HTML or Vue code.

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tiredofsametab
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I can't read plain-text, uncoloured HTML


That's all we had back in the day. The only difference that jumps out to me is having attributes, but that's still not that crazy. Even back when I did web stuff, I used notepad++ without any particular higlighting the vast majority of the time for plain HTML (though not JS).

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The Bard in Green
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The Bard in Green
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