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minus-squareCorngood@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoWe should have tools and libraries that help us avoid boilerplate, not ones that help us write more of it.
minus-squareflambonkscious@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoYes! I’m not even a programmer, but lot of this is really dictated by the language, isn’t it? (C or .Net, for example - and all the default crap needed for UI elements I’ve had to endure in Powershell, which was probably calling a .Net library)
minus-squareCorngood@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoC at least has a preprocessor. C# has almost nothing except generators, which are a huge pain in the ass. Java seems to be similar. Lisp is the greatest. Everything else is in between.
We should have tools and libraries that help us avoid boilerplate, not ones that help us write more of it.
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Yes!
I’m not even a programmer, but lot of this is really dictated by the language, isn’t it? (C or .Net, for example - and all the default crap needed for UI elements I’ve had to endure in Powershell, which was probably calling a .Net library)
C at least has a preprocessor. C# has almost nothing except generators, which are a huge pain in the ass. Java seems to be similar.
Lisp is the greatest. Everything else is in between.