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NullDottNullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place
Oct 20, 2026, 6:30 PM
The existence of syntactic sugar implies the subsequent syntactic diabetes due to overuse of it.
Which language would fall in that category?
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NullDottNullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place
Oct 20, 2026, 6:37 PM
Damn you guys didn't hesitate on throwing Ruby in the taffy machine LMAO
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✧✦Catherine✦✧whitequark@treehouse.systems
Oct 20, 2026, 6:31 PM
@NullTheFool Ruby (my claim to authority here: I wrote the first essentially complete, independent reimpementation of a Ruby lexer in the language's entire existence)
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✧✦Catherine✦✧whitequark@treehouse.systems
Oct 20, 2026, 6:31 PM
@NullTheFool I quit using it after that
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Eniko Foxeniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
Oct 20, 2026, 6:31 PM
@NullTheFool ruby
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NullDottNullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place
Oct 20, 2026, 6:50 PM
@eniko She's canonically diabetic in my CodeGals lore now, hope you're happy
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Eniko Foxeniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
Oct 20, 2026, 7:04 PM
@NullTheFool yes :D
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✧✦Catherine✦✧whitequark@treehouse.systems
Oct 20, 2026, 6:38 PM
@NullTheFool have you seen parse.y. HAVE YOU
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NullDottNullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place
Oct 20, 2026, 6:41 PM
@whitequark WHAT THE FUCK
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✧✦Catherine✦✧whitequark@treehouse.systems
Oct 20, 2026, 6:44 PM
@NullTheFool i had to commission a translation from a book in Japanese just to figure out wtf the lexer is doing. the book was second edition. in the second edition the author solemnly apologized for not getting things right in the first one
maybe, just maybe, it's too complex
(they made it so much worse since)
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NullDottNullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place
Oct 20, 2026, 6:46 PM
@whitequark Considering Matz is using Claude to develop Ruby nowadays I don't know if I wanna see where the next iteration of that goes to...
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✧✦Catherine✦✧whitequark@treehouse.systems
Oct 20, 2026, 6:50 PM
@NullTheFool this was before Claude, 2021-era
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NullDottNullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place
Oct 20, 2026, 7:06 PM
@whitequark I know, I DON'T WANNA SEE HOW WORSE THIS COULD GET
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RonflaixRonflaix@mastodon.gamedev.place
Oct 20, 2026, 6:44 PM
@whitequark @NullTheFool the SQLite's parse.y?
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✧✦Catherine✦✧whitequark@treehouse.systems
Oct 20, 2026, 6:45 PM
@Ronflaix @NullTheFool Ruby
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RonflaixRonflaix@mastodon.gamedev.place
Oct 20, 2026, 6:46 PM
@whitequark @NullTheFool and I was thinking SQLite's seemed big.
Let me join Null in quacking WTF loud.
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