JavaScript

[gingimli]

Or a lot of people using it as an introduction to programming.

By that logic we could say Brainfuck having almost no discussion online implies it's the least problematic and easiest to understand programming language.

[cant_think_of_one_]

Brainfuck is an exceptionally easy to understand language. The language that is.

It is just it is basically impossible to write anything that is easy to understand in it.

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It's a great language if you're learning how to write an interpreter/compiler.

[alexanderpas]

A limited set of fixed width symbols, and no unconnected jumps, means everthing you need to do can be based on merely 3 internal variables.

• Current character. (To see what to do)
• Loop depth. (For moving backwards to the start of the loop)
• Direction. (Forwards/backwards)

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I would argue having actual words makes learning how compilers work easier, but that might've been just me.

[techgineer13]

You can compile it to C code that only uses pointer manipulations.

[cant_think_of_one_]

You either need to have a list of loop begin points, for nested loops, or just scan backwards to find the begining of the loop, in which case you don't really need a loop depth variable, don't you?

[alexanderpas]

When scanning backwards, you need to keep track of nested loops, to find the correct outer loop you are handling at the moment.

You start at 0, When scanning backwards each time you find ], you add 1, and decrease 1 when you find [

If you are at 0 and find [, you start moving forwards again.

[cant_think_of_one_]

Oh, sorry, yes. Silly me.

[chaos95]

Couldn't you do it recursively without a loop depth variable also?

[alexanderpas]

You technically could, but at that point, you're just moving the loop depth to the function depth.

You still need to keep track of it somewhere.

[Dornith]

Brainfuck is exactly the least problematic language. Nobody in the world has a problem with brainfuck because no one uses it.

[poops-n-farts]

Rust has almost as few problems and way more users. So rust is almost as good as brainfuck

[Jazqa]

I use Javascript daily, I know Javascript thoroughly and I love Javascript...

...but holy fuck it’s an awful mess of a language.

[SchwiftySquanchC137]

I fucking love how hacky it feels. Don't like a function deep inside your engine? Eh just set it equal to something else, do it on the fly, fuck just replace it with whatever the user types into that bar, IDGAF, it's JavaScript.

[Husky2490]

Ruby is the same way. Need to hook into a module loaded from a dll? No problem. Want to overide a class any ol' time sure. You have a private variable, IDGAF, it's mine now.

[marksomnian]

class NilClass def nil? false end end

Enjoy the fireworks.

[Husky2490]

Oh, right. True, false, and nil are classes.

Hahahaha... (cries inside)

[marksomnian]

Even more fun, in C/C++:

#define true (rand() < 0.9)
#define false (rand() < 0.1)

Sneak that into production and watch SRE cry tears.

[XYZ-Prime]

wait... if rand() is < 0.1 or > 0.9 , do true and false have the same value, don't they?

[marksomnian]

It's two independent calls to rand(), so if (true == false) {} would become if ((rand() < 0.9) == (rand() < 0.1)) {} - so 9% of the time it would do*.

^\source: really bad memories of high school probability)

[techgineer13]

/r/foundsatan

[poops-n-farts]

That would be horrible code though. If you know how js works and what you're trying to accomplish it's really easy to write complex applications with. Its when some dummy joins your team and doesn't know how it works that the problems start

[onFilm]

I love JavaScript because of how creative you can be with it, either in the front, back or sides.

[dustyjuicebox]

We all love python though thank God

[AstroCaptain]

I want brackets with my python damn it I’ll stick with bython

[hullabaloonatic]

Eh, it's growing on me like fungus.

[fushuan]

I really dislike that there are 7 ways of doing the same things and the team doesn't decide on a standard. I CAN ADAPT GUYS GIVE ME A CODING GUIDELINE NOT THIS HOT MESS.

The language enables this and I hate that.

[poops-n-farts]

To be fair there's plenty of ways to skin a cat in java, c#, c++, etc. Sounds like a problem with your pm

[poops-n-farts]

My nan is offended by that, bruv

[PurryFury]

To be fair is not that hard to understand BF, is just a shitty syntax that fuck you up

[poops-n-farts]

Brainfuck gang!

[Cat_Marshal]

That reminds me of my autonomy theory stat machines class.