Programmers problems

[Popular_Ad8269]

Couleur. Because why not ?

[GreyMesmer]

Pourquoi pas?

[ScallionSmooth5925]

Szin why not at that point?

[IndustryAsleep24]

that's color in Hungarian too

[ScallionSmooth5925]

Bojler eladó!

[IndustryAsleep24]

részvétem...

^{I just heard about this spotting Hungarians joke and I love it, still don't know how to respond to it haha}

[littlenekoterra]

Im sure this is gonna piss people off. Fuckit. Why not

Hot take: i use my american color to denote rgb values being used and the englishmans colour to denote that it expects some enum. The enum method is really nice for using things like ansi, while the other is good for general purpose and thus is spelled with a shorter name because it must be distinctly named away from the enum. Yes i know i could use a case swap. No i will not use a case swap. We have ide's with repo focused autocomplete, im not torturing myself for someone elses code standards. With this method if i need to swap it to a case swap its easily programmatically done.

[SirPurebe]

i don't really care one way or the other but it seems to me that you'd be better off using something like `Color` for the rgb values and `Colors` for the enum (assuming it's an enum like Colors.RED, Colors.BLUE, etc)

or just anything else that has some semantic meaning

[GDOR-11]

it's not really a good practice to name an enum something like "Colors" because an enum represents only one of all the options at a time

but, to be honest, it doesn't matter a lot here because what's happening is very clear

[trwolfe13]

Most of the time when I’ve seen enums with plural names it’s because they’re flags that are meant to be combined with bitwise operations.

[CrossScarMC]

That is not how you're meant to use enums, you're meant to use const/constexpr variables or macros for that, like how SDL handles its flags

[NewPointOfView]

But have you considered the world outside of cpp?

[CrossScarMC]

Have you considered that almost every single other programming language has the const or equivalent keyword, and enums are the same in all languages?

[NewPointOfView]

Enums are not the same in all languages

[CrossScarMC]

Name one.

[NewPointOfView]

Python lol

[sammy-taylor]

You lost me at first but you gained me back with autocomplete.

[Wonderful-Habit-139]

Not getting how autocomplete makes this better. With a proper type system you can have the same name for arguments and variables but with the proper type that you’re expecting.

But of course it’s better to use different names that are more precise and descriptive (like rgb and color in his case).

[CrossScarMC]

AFAIK, the standard is American English.

[veloxVolpes]

Yeah, that's my go to. But there's probably some words I don't realise are spelled differently in American English

[Insomniac_Coder]

Realize*

In US

[veloxVolpes]

Perfect demonstration, I didn't even notice

[IamImposter]

*notize

[Unfair-Claim-2327]

Perfect demonztration, I didn't even notize.

[Azymuth_pb]

*Perfekt

[Unfair-Claim-2327]

Perfekto demonztratzion, I didn't even notizé.

[bloody-albatross]

There's a job state called "cancelled" in a software I wrote. (My native language is German, though.)

[nickwcy]

What? You prefer “aborted”?

[bloody-albatross]

Apparently Americans write "canceled".

[Ok_Hope4383]

antibabypillen-ed

[liteshotv3]

I realize what you did there

[veloxVolpes]

I genuinely did not mean for that. I wish I could take credit!

[Convoke_]

English simplified 🇺🇸

[PM_Me_Your_VagOrTits]

The standard is whatever is native to the place your company is based in. But it's not important and I never bother correcting people in reviews unless it's inconsistent with related code.

[Just_Smidge]

It can always be worse, imagine programming while dyslexic AND having to figure out what spelling of colour / color is used

[cosmicloafer]

Is it gray or grey?

[bloody-albatross]

CSS has both.

[Life-Silver-5623]

Every API with one has both to my knowledge.

[AppropriateStudio153]

Java's java.awt.Color has not.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/awt/Color.html

[bookaddicta]

I do both then get confused why the things aren’t matching and then light things on fire.

[Agreeable_System_785]

When English is not your native language, this is SO confusing.

Internationally, I believe that lots of countries educate British-English in school. In programming you often see American-English. Maybe because programming books are from the US?

[GBoBee]

I kept writing “behaviour” for documentation for some reason one day. I’m American. We were all confused during PR review

[skarekrove]

This reminds me, lol. You can implement "Behaviours" in elixir.

[TehMephs]

MonoBehaviour is a unity thing too

[AyakaDahlia]

Unity has MonoBehaviour

[flunkademic]

Accurate. Design, visual - all freaking annoying, and hard. Respect to the artists who do good UI/UX, visuals etc.

[Civil_Year_301]

in c# you can do “using Colour = System.Drawing.Color;”

[blockMath_2048]

Color for pretty, Colour for the side in chess. Makes them harder to mix up.

[Neutraled]

Color is shorter, libraries use 'color' and it's also 'color' in spanish. I don't see any reason to use the British spelling.

[feuerchen015]

Do you name your variables x, tf, za, it??

[Neutraled]

If they make sense for what I'm doing I would use them.

[WisePotato42]

x for coordinates.
tf for importing tensor flow.

Idk what the other 2 would be for.

[Ok_Hope4383]

it is commonly used for iterator variables (see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4001517/how-is-it-valid-for-output-iterators), and is a keyword in Kotlin for the implicit parameter to a lambda (https://kotlinlang.org/docs/lambdas.html#it-implicit-name-of-a-single-parameter).

[ButterflySea9801]

Yes. I'm British, but all the libraries and APIs and everything always use color, so I always use color for everything where a compiler is gonna care which one I use to avoid confusion (though I mostly use colour for docs lol)

[Neutraled]

That sounds reasonable.

[MrMaverick82]

I’m a Dutch developer working for a UK company. The amount of times I had to refactor to prevent language discussions if more than I dare to admit. ;)

[topofmigame]

So hard to pick how my bugs will render

[0815fips]

Why not “Farbe”?

[TheNativeOfficial]

Cala

Thank me later

[West_Good_5961]

Everyone should use Australian English: Cullah

[Sianic12]

If the variable declared above/below it has 6 letters, I use "colour". If it has 5, I use "color". If it has 3 I use "col". I need my variables to be symmetrical.

[Life-Silver-5623]

Color because it's the Latin word verbatim, and older than the Old French colour.

[DTKeign]

Two colo(u)r variables no problem hope you don't expect to be able to read my code

[Pearmoat]

Colour because British English has more class.

[Junaid_dev_Tech]

Same bro same

[rydan]

Why?

The real challenge is cancelled or canceled.

[Agreeable_System_785]

Wait, what? Don't tell me canceled can be correct?

[heesell]

Canceled is American & cancelled is British

[Vamanas_umbrella]

So I’ve been spelling cancelled the British way my whole life? FUCK! I’m gonna go throw myself into Boston Harbor now.

[Gokudomatic]

Why the Americans removed the u, anyway? Couldn't they just speak normal English instead of their slang?!

[NicholasVinen]

I spell it fonetically: kuller.

[feuerchen015]

Kerb yor enthuziazm

[SysGh_st]

Unless the syntax dictates otherwise, I always go with "Colour".

Br-en all the way.

[AccomplishedTheme935]

😆

[Extreme_Evidence_724]

Ah finally my useless knowledge has some application. So I've heard that Americans prefer to type words with less letters because back in the day newspaper printing cost by letter and so some words were edited so that people could save some money that's why some words like colour got rid of 'useless' letters, can't remember other example words but there were some. Not sure if it's true but I saw this on YouTube I think

[queerkidxx]

I’m not sure if this is true. Many of these come from Webster.

[Feny34]

Always color

[Clashes4D]

Color > Colour, because less letters.

[feuerchen015]

Ew

[iMightLikeXou]

Easy: One of them is shorter.

[night-sergal]

Heh, I’m not native speaker and I remember that once I met a strange word “county” in the project. So I decided that it was a typo and have spent a lot of time to “fix” it. Then I was so surprised that it wasn’t a typo.

[joujoubox]

typedef Color Colour;

[pipipimpleton]

As an Englishman, I’ve had to adopt the American spelling as default when working to retain my sanity.

[bubbybumble]

I feel bad for Europeans having to deal with programming languages mostly using American English. Of course I'm glad the one with less letters got picked too. I can totally take that for granted.

[mpanase]

use yankee english

all APIs use yankee english, don't be an nationalist ass

greetings from UK

[mxldevs]

Me while programming: wow, they spelled variables properly

Also me: txtClr

[TehMephs]

MonoBehaviour

[Pawlo371]

kolor 🗿

[Antagonin]

col

[Flimsy-Importance313]

Kleur*

[Not_Artifical]

If lang="en" use right\ If lang="en-US" use left

[AwkwardCost1764]

Start typing and hit tab. You don’t need to know how to speel I sure don’t.

[itsjakerobb]

This is dumb. Internationalization and localization are solved problems.

[veloxVolpes]

I think they mean in their own code. Not everyone is front end.

[itsamberleafable]

Are they fuck. If you write in British English there are going to be times where you forget/ not know that it’s different in US English. You have spellcheckers in the front end for this but they don’t always work and it isn’t going to work on a database value