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Found this beauty in one of my old projects from school (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by bigboismith@lemmy.world to c/programming_horror@programming.dev

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[–] zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

Why settle on cammel case ("saveGame") or upper cammel case ("SaveGame") when you can have one of each?

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nested json 👽

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Someone's handed me nested base-64 encoded JSON before and to this day I am moderately annoyed at them.

[–] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 56 minutes ago

unity kinda does this ! there is a json file wirh a base-64 encoded string (UTF-16 encoding) and is a completely different data structure with embedded json

[–] python@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

smh, could have used the short form ()=>{ instead of function 😤

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago

I've been coding long enough that I still think of that as a fairly new thing in JS.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I WILL NOT USE ANOTHER LINE. I DON'T NEED IT

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

The best code has the fewest lines.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago

In German we say "doppelt hält besser". Is there an English saying like that? "Twice is stronger/more stable/holds better."