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What's the most fun programming language to learn? (piefed.ca)
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I don't need something practical. I just need something fun to keep me motivated.

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[โ€“] orclev@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

See also the closely related concept of code smells. These are things that aren't necessarily wrong like anti-patterns are because in certain niche cases or in limited amounts they're fine, but they're often an indicator that you're doing something wrong in your code. As a quick example I looked up some code smells in JS and a couple of the examples were using == instead of === and having deeply nested/indented code (E.G. have if blocks inside of if blocks inside of if blocks inside of a for loop).

[โ€“] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Haha nice. I'll keep my nose out for any funky code smells. Thanks!