mastodon.me.uk is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Open, user-supported, corporation-free social media for the UK.

Administered by:

Server stats:

500
active users

Chloe Kelly fan account

"BUT THE HELPS ME CHURN OUT BOILERPLATE" I am once again begging you to try to imagine working towards a world where we don't need the boilerplate

@pikesley apparently writing for loops is hard. Or at least this is what I've read today.

@pikesley @garrwolfdog I’m sure by now any respectable IDE has the option for snippets right?

@pikesley The appearance of LLMs may have revealed that a lot of human communication is in fact just boilerplate slop. Now you can get a machine to write your CV, it becomes apparent that CVs were never much use anyway. So much language is just social ritual, but we cling to our rituals, however pointless.

@kbm0 @pikesley we also hate the ritual more often than not

@pikesley > a world without boilerplate
REBOL would like to have a word with you :comfypeek:

@icedquinn "Rebol is nearly syntax free. And, as you become fluent, you end up writing code in sentences, somewhat similar to human languages" yeah I've been caught out by this before

@pikesley the real thing that made it nice was that DSLs were an up-front goal (they called it dialecting.)

code stayed as a bag of symbols unless you evaluated it. you were intended to use this so you could just read parsed code like an array of things and use that to write your own job specific interpreters.

they never got a whole lot of those for various reasons. the draw dialect was meant to be a proof of concept.

in a way its like Lisp macros