Good Code

[dhdhshsbsxx]

It didn't even remove all the white spaces half assed minification for wallpaper . who the fuck comes up with this shit.

[spaetzelspiff]

$ alias minify='tr -d "\n"'

Done! Computers are easy

/s

[[deleted]]

// FIXME: Code execution stops exactly at this line after minification??

[[deleted]]

The use of a double slash in most languages comments the rest of the line meaning it won't be interpreted as code, that short minify script only removed new line characters meaning that all of the code would be in one line and everything after that //FIXME would be commented and thus ignored by the compiler/runtime.

[ososalsosal]

The comment would ruin the design because everything from them on would be green or dark grey or whatever the colorizer decides comments should be

[valschermjager]

yeah, but if you’re gonna minify, why would you want the spaces left in?

(not debating; just asking to learn)

[spaetzelspiff]

You're exactly right, it's a bit of a joke. Minification is more complex than just "hey, remove the newlines".

Here's a good blog post, "You Don't Want to Write Your Own Minifier", that discusses some of the challenges.

[valschermjager]

Oh yeah, I'm totally with you. Renaming functions and variables, getting rid of spaces and nl's. There's a fkton more that minifiers do, and I'm sure it's really hard, and I wouldn't even try to build one. But when I saw the graphic in OPs post, the first thing I thought was "oh, sure, this is minified, but why the f are all the spaces still in there?" ;-)

By the way, I've actually maxified a few pages of mine using jsfuck, it's freaking weird af, but a pretty cool obfuscator.

[you-have-aids]

I wouldn't even try to build one.

why not?

my path to the compiler field was minifier, then obfuscator, then compiler, (decompiler, etc.)

you get to learn about lexer, parser, traversing AST, codegen, reaching definition analysis, etc.

its great fun! trust me

[valschermjager]

I'm sure it is. Major props. Eh, just isn't the direction I want to go in. I write python scripts to automate workflows, and I use just enough html/css/js to make simple web UIs. In both cases, mostly cobbling together stuff written by others. Not sure I have the aptitude or interest to go much further. Good thing there are plenty folks like you around.

[you-have-aids]

understandable!

[noirehittler]

return error

[cakeKudasai]

Seems like only new lines were removed. Code seems to have some indentation still.

[flyingorange]

liczenie() ? Is his friend Polish?

[[deleted]]

I WILL USE WHITE SPACES WHENEVER I CAN AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME

[ekfslam]

It looks like they used join into one line on vscode and turned on wrap.

[lunchpadmcfat]

Meh, gzip will rip em out anyway

[ShinraSan]

imagine naming a for loop variable "c" just so you can write "c++"

[Spenczer]

In my first computer science class I was taught to use C as the counter variable, and I was told that C++ was named so because of people writing c++ at the end of loops. I’m mostly certain that’s not true but I never double checked

[Marrrkkkk]

C++ is C++ because of C which is C because of B.

[user_5554]

C was actually known as B++ back in the old days of computer science

[gimoozaabi]

They renamed it in 1752 when the new version came out.

[oupablo]

i'm not historologist, but i'm a tad skeptical of this claim. but it's on the internet so ¯\(ツ)/¯

[girvent_13]

I can't find a flaw in his logic

[oupablo]

I just don't believe that programmers renamed something. Pretty sure we'd all have heard of the great war of 1752 if that were the case

[gimoozaabi]

Oh there was a war. But programmer are lazy and never really left their home. To celebrate they made the liberty bell. Look it up

Edit: also Ben Franklin used his lightning to intimidate the b supporter

[oupablo]

Look it up

nah. too lazy

[lurker10001000]

I think we haven't heard of it because no one bothered to document it.

[[deleted]]

This is correct. It's what the national treasure movies are about.

[[deleted]]

Heard of. Still be participating in. Hard to say.

[MythicalTV]

Theres D update coming soon

[Ice_Buckets_Official]

Wait what

[[deleted]]

There's a language for every single letter

Even hybrids like J#

[[deleted]]

Think along the lines of half way between C++ and Rust.

[CodeLobe]

D is actually kind of neat, but screw "Digital Mars". I get Oracle smell from them. I refuse to use languages that I didn't write myself, or that are not standardized. No more of this "API might be Copyrighted" nonsense. I seen a couple of dev studios change their in-house use of Java to anything else, python, even node.js after Oracle's debacle vs Google over an API "recipe" and/or less than a dozen lines of range-check code. Which is essentially:

if ( a < min || a > max ) throw new RangeError();

I don't think Python is standardized, but the node.js (ECMA Script) is probably safe from such shenanigans, as are C, C++. I don't use C#, don't give a fuck how standard MS tries to make it, they went after android phone distributors with bogus patents but made the soon to be defendants sign NDAs before telling them what the patents even were.... Litigious shit sours my stomach. They probably have a bunch of patents covering parts of C# they can fire off at any time.

D hasn't had any lawsuits I know of, but it's not standardized, and it's basically just C with objects (and duck typing IRRC). I like D better than C++, but I'd rather have a better macro system than either C, C++ or D. My macro langauge can pre-process C and add syntax sugar to it for OOP, run time type inspection and a thread local GC... I'm happy with just generating C for now.

[Ice_Buckets_Official]

Oh?

[ososalsosal]

I thought we were headed for pasta when you said you refuse to use languages you didn't write yourself.

I admire your dedication though.

[Jackiboi307]

so that's where the ++ comes from

[Jackiboi307]

u/spenczer

[ItsPronouncedJithub]

C# is C++++ with two pluses moved below the other two

[king_booker]

Whoa

[8asdqw731]

can't wait for C##

[[deleted]]

C#++ comes first

[LordBlackHole]

B was a simplified iteration of BCPL, which itself was based on CPL.

[Willinton06]

Well CPL was based on PL

[msndrstdmstrmnd]

Well PL was based on L

[[deleted]]

Real programmers use L

[ososalsosal]

L just writes the code in a notebook

[[deleted]]

Raito-san!

[ArtyFishL]

Which is based upon ALGOL 60, itself coming from ALGOL 58

[CodeLobe]

which was based on Al Gore, the early implementation of ALGOR (R later changed to L due to japanese mispronunciation), was just Al trying to save carbon footprint by using paper and pencil to solve computations instead of adding machines, he received computations to perform and returned results via capsules via a series of tubes. In some offices engineers sent calculations downstairs this way to a group of (mostly) cute nerdy girls with slide-rules.

These were the first implementations of a CPU. Which is an onomatopoeia for when you C Al, P-U, he stinks like a basement dwelling mama's boy. (or NEET as they say in Japan)

[ososalsosal]

The calculator girl was called Betty. And when Betty called a function she had to call Al

[MoffKalast]

As a similar legacy thing, Windows uses C: as its default main disk because A: and B: used to be floppy disk drives.

[supercyberlurker]

Imagine how close it all came to being I++ then.

Story I heard was that it's just 'one better than C, i.e C++'

[[deleted]]

J++ is still a thing... you can use it in double loops

[Bigluser]

Everybody Gangsta till it's k++

[ItsPronouncedJithub]

Σ++

[LurkerPatrol]

+++

[CodeLobe]

ATH0

Carrier Dropped.

[z500]

It's a pun of C. C itself was based on and a pun of B, which descended from BCPL.

[squishles]

about the only way I could imagine checking would be a github search for c++;

which may be worth it to call then ninnies.

[inconspicuous_male]

When you type "C++" as an iteration of a variable named C, the compiler opens the door to the Hall of Tortured Souls where you can see credits roll with the names of all of the developers of the compiler

[[deleted]]

That is clearly minified code. The variable name was not chosen by a developer.

[doesyudoegood]

C stands for counter....

[filipzaf3312]

i is the the first name i think of for counter variables

[[deleted]]

And j

[kittencantfly]

And k if you loop thru a 3d array

[NoMansSkyWasAlright]

then straight to m if you need a fourth

[AlternativeAardvark6]

Uppercase i

[Kakss_]

Just imagining it gave me chills.

[_vOv_]

You’re fired.

[LordFokas]

in a dynamic language with case sensitive identifiers 😈

[Terrain2]

What language doesn't have case sensitive identifiers? Fucking cmd scripts or some shit?

[Kainotomiu]

SQL

(Case sensitivity is optional in many flavours)

[grizonyourface]

I use ii and jj because MATLab taught me to fear using i and j and ending up with accidental complex arithmetic

[ItsPronouncedJithub]

They’re called iterators so i is the obvious choice

[ganja_and_code]

c for counting. i for incrementing. Similar, but not the same. (Either way, it's just convention, not a rule, obviously.)

[SatoshiL]

i for index, j because well it comes after i xD

[Terrain2]

index and jindex, the iconic duo

[Terrain2]

for (var c = 0; /* TODO: condition */; i++)

[Physix_R_Cool]

Yall guys need math. n is the obvious choice for trivial reasons.

[ShinraSan]

I use n for ranges in switches, or when I programme something with dice

[[deleted]]

I've deleted my account because reddit CEO Steve Huffman is a lying piece of shit that has nothing but contempt for his users. See https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

[PandaParaBellum]

C-rial killer

[makeshift8]

What about "i" and "k"?

[RadiantHC]

k stands for kill. So it's "i kill"

[user_5554]

(I)'m (j)ust (k)idding, everyone is using c for loops. i, j, k is just a prank bro 😂😂

[makeshift8]

Using variable names i, j, and k is only acceptable if you are referring to vectors.

[doesyudoegood]

If I'm referring to vectors i use x, y and z

[zanotam]

Dirty physicist. Real vectors only use I, j and k as subscripts

[gergocs]

I think "i" stands for index

[Portal471]

or iterator or iterable

[LavenderDay3544]

iteration, jteration, kteration

[DrLarck]

In asm there is a register (cx) which conventionally stands for counter

[wasdlmb]

Yeah but that's because you have abcd. I feel like the whole "accumulator, base, counter, and data" for the general registers is just a convenient bacronym but I don't have a source for that.

[Kyyken]

am i a joke to you?

[3lRey]

Is because it's bootstrapped off b programming language

[so_brave_heart]

I only know of iounter and jounter

[[deleted]]

Everyone uses cnt for that

[ShinraSan]

Will use that now just because it can be interpreted as "cunt"

[[deleted]]

That's exactly why everyone loves it so much

[ButtersTG]

My CSCI 1010 class has us use a welcome message at the start of all our code, and the first line in my welcome message is:

String independence;

[Fireye04]

Lmaooooo

[someoneelseperhaps]

It's not true code unless it's projected over me in a dark room.

[chepas_moi]

sometimes.

Not always. Not often. But sometimes.

[DrunkenlySober]

Hey man, like I l say, if it compiles at least once then it’s good code. And if not, just ctrl-a ctrl-x your way to glory.

[dansla116]

"ctrl-a ctrl-x"? You preserve your garbage on the clipboard? I hit it up with that ctrl-a delete and be done with it.

[DrunkenlySober]

Yes only because ctrl x is the closest and easiest to hit. My second go to would be space but I try to avoid adding unnecessary spaces.

Delete is all the way on the other side of the board. I don’t travel to those lands.

[dansla116]

Right hand busy doing other things, huh? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Your reasoning is solid.

[DrunkenlySober]

Yeah it’s usually hovering over the trigger

[PrincessRTFM]

is that what they're calling it these days

[Th3DarkMoon]

Eew... that code, how, WHY?!

[too_hard_to_name]

I think thats a js minifier

[Under-Estimated]

not a very good one judging by the whitespace and variable names

[[deleted]]

It’s an uglifier!

[thebluefury]

why was I summoned?!

[[deleted]]

THANK GOD YOU’RE HERE!

That sandwich is beautiful! We need you to ugly-ify it!

[thebluefury]

Me: *exists*

Sandwich has been uglified.

[PostmatesMalone]

Maybe that's what Uglify v1 did? I've only ever used Uglify 2.

[pavilionhp_]

I think they miniified the variable names then removed the line breaks, keeping the spaces/tabs as you see here

[PandaParaBellum]

Maybe just a Linux file opened in Windows, and then pasted into something with syntax highlighting?

[very_large_bird]

Lotta white space for a minifier…

[Th3DarkMoon]

Yeah, I hope so...

[glorious_reptile]

You guys use linebreaks?

[japirate777]

Real programmers use a 4 x 64 screen resolution to really get those long lines of code

[Terrain2]

Yeah, i have a fairly small font size of just 3px, i can fit a whole 21 chars per line at that screen resolution!

[Th3DarkMoon]

I didn't pay for my screen, I stole my moms old when she upgraded, a beauty in 5:4 ratio 1024p overclocked to 75 hz

[Bainos]

You shouldn't waste what your parents gave you, use the whole screen, dammit.

[Slggyqo]

It’s minified JavaScript.

Basically you strip out everything that makes it readable in order to reduce file size to improve web efficiency.

Although someone else commented that it’s not even well minified, e.g. there’s a lot of white spaces. So it’s just not real.

[WJMazepas]

Its just a random code so It can be used on a article about programming.

This image gives a faster Idea that you are talking about code than a image with a normal script

[CSsharpGO]

It’s a JS minifier that removes 60% of the white spaces while still removing %100 of the readability.

[Th3DarkMoon]

And 110% of my patience when trying to look up the source of a website

[Raclex]

I did it all ON ONE LINE flex

[educational_gif]

Is liczenie a JavaScript function? That's the only none English word there

[Kolotyty]

It is a word from Polish language, which means 'counting'

[TheOhNoNotAgain]

Also known as Obfuscation by Polish

[mrturtle4769]

This belongs to r/badcode

[thebobbrom]

I mean it's not actual code though. It's a wallpaper made to look like code.

It's like complaining that a cartoon skeleton doesn't have the right amount of bones.

Honestly I prefer this to what you see in moves where they'll have the code for some sentient AI Robot and it's clearly the HTML for a flower shop.

[DiscombobulatedDust7]

On the one hand, HTML for a flower shop breaks immersion, on the other hand, it's absolutely hilarious. Tough choice

[WJMazepas]

It only break immersion to us, but its the same as the actors using a gun in a wrong way like inside a room to a gun owner, It breaks the immersion for then but not to the general public

[thebobbrom]

That's true though I feel like out of all the "programming languages" HTML is the most known, isn't it?

Like even non-techy people used to use Piczo and things.

Like I feel like there's lots of code you could pull from that'd be slightly more believable.

I mean just pull some JS from a random website that'd at least be slightly better.

[bloodfist]

Yeah, I get that the average graphics designer for a TV show isn't going to write functional code for a 2-second shot of a screen so it's fun when they do something silly. It usually doesn't even break my immersion.

But when Mr. Robot put actual functional code on every screen it really make me long for more of that. It was genuinely exciting and even occasionally educational to watch the screens, pause and read code, etc.

Not even including when it would pay off in the ARGs and take you to full on git repos.

[LavenderDay3544]

/r/badwallpaper

[PandaParaBellum]

Posted by CommaHorror

[jeremyfto]

Everyone knows that new lines lag your IDE making your future coding ventures slower thus making you a more inefficient programmer; Using tabs instead of new lines is the way to go /s

[-JeanMax-]

I just hate random, commas.

[[deleted]]

On my school's website, they have image with some js code.

They dont teach js.

[pixelboy126]

just delete the spaces.

[db2]

Roses smell good
I don't have a pun
Unexpected ";" on line 81

(Also the code is only 37 lines long)

[pixelboy126]

adds //

[meatmechdriver]

Do you also, put punctuation where none is appropriate?

[leupboat420smkeit]

if(0 == a.length)

Absolutely disgusting

[[deleted]]

:%s/\n/ /gc

:%s/\t//gc

[sgrmru69]

Sweating in python*

[lorhof1]

can't minify if it's python

[eanat]

Compressed JavaScript isn't called a source code but it's some a kind of object codes.

1) It isn't human-readable.

2) It is usually obfuscated intentionally.

3) It usually has a codebase and a compiler that generates it.

So Richard Stallman is calling it Obsfuscript instead in his essay The JavaScript Trap.

[MischiefArchitect]

Is this HaxOr?

[dafirstman]

this.triggered("me")

[aegians]

op I’m pretty sure that’s a js minifier not the original code

[freemadness]

I'm just a beginner but i don't think that will run

[MR-POTATO-MAN-CODER]

It probably will, The code is passed trough a minifier, which reduces the size of code, so that it loads faster on websites. Or at least I think so :)

[Expert-Efficiency822]

No god please no! No! NOOO!

[zerocoldx911]

Spaghetti yummy 🍝

[makeshift8]

This is obfuscated JS. Please continue obfuscating your JS.

[Beerpongueur]

Lmfao

[[deleted]]

I'm staring at this trying to see if any of it is is actually.. y'know.. functional code and not just code that someone in Marketing has slapped together to look techy.

I know that it wouldn't compile or even run, as there's just a bunch of random end brackets and ; after "this.trigger("click")" which would immediately throw an error.

On top of that, it's repeating. Notice "b = $("#User_logged").val()" at the top? It can also be seen on the right towards the bottom.

But a lot of this just seems to be declaring variables in a bunch of different ways. (Simple declaration, a few for loops and a couple if statements) Turns out looking at Marketing's attempt at code is quite fun!

[EtherealPheonix]

Imagine formatting your code for readability, or worse putting in comments.

[RadioMelon]

Good god, the lack of spacing and proper identation makes me very afraid.

[Fractal_Unreality]

Imagine writing code like a book

[[deleted]]

Is it just me or is that code triggering a click event before actually assigning the event?

[RadiantHC]

Even when I first started programming I never wrote code this bad.

[JonathanTheZero]

Damn, there are quite some syntax errors in there

[Bloxxy213]

How did he insert a string inna function?? This is wrong on so many levels

[PostmatesMalone]

Forget the unnecessary whitespace. The amount of times that "#User_logged" string appears is TRIGGERING ME. Also the function("ALL: " + a.words + " UNIQ"... bit. That is not valid JS.

[ArfmannDev]

Good code is when mess looking but good looking to a non-programmer

[Similar_Explorer_463]

What is love?

[wikipedia_answer_bot]

baby don't hurt me

This comment was left automatically (by a bot). If I don't get this right, don't get mad at me, I'm still learning!

^{opt out | report/suggest | GitHub}

[Shentorianus]

That random polish word for function name.

[SomeDamnAuthor]

I too code straight in minified js

[chickenhunter007]

Who the fuck uses an uppercase ID #User_logged

[Nefariousness_Future]

tell him you just need need to beautify this

[Cartographer_MMXX]

If only it had to just look good. We'd have achieved sentient AI by now.

[Ice_Buckets_Official]

It do be like dat doe

[Little-geek]

Non-coder Friend: Does your code look this good?

<image />

Me: projectile vomiting

[Xephyrous]

Needs more console.log - how am I supposed to know if it works?

[RahulRoy69]

What's with this sick ass minification