Sep 25, 2026, 10:50 PMi read an article about syntax highlighting that said "don't use bold or italics because they're redundant with color highlighting." but consider,
- Sep 25, 2026, 10:50 PM
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Sep 25, 2026, 10:56 PMOh yes Pascal code too.
Pascal code look 100x better than rust code for some reason. Maybe it is the let syntax which just makes it so much harder to read rust code.- Sep 25, 2026, 10:59 PM
@pinskia would be cool if someone could give Ada a bit of a makeover with modern language niceties like sum types and pattern matching
Sep 25, 2026, 11:01 PM@joe @pinskia Ada has the same problem to us as all the other Pascal-ish languages: every neat idea they have is drowned in the kind of syntax that could only be truly loved by a european cis male. like, we get that this is because of its heritage as a pedagogic language by and for european cis men, but you can also imagine why we would simply not vibe with that, ya know?
AN/CRM-114flyingsaceur@ioc.exchangeSep 26, 2026, 12:09 PM@atax1a @joe @pinskia
shot: unlocked ancient memory of being a week into introductory Turbo Pascal taught by a sexagenarian math teacher who drew the short straw and pinning the irritation on “why aren’t we doing C like grownups”chaser: Standard ML, despite the superficialities, does not irritate on contact in the same way
bnuuybnuuy@mathstodon.xyzSep 26, 2026, 11:31 PM- Sep 26, 2026, 11:31 PM
@bnuuy man we really don't feel like explaining this to a complete rando. we said what we said
- bnuuybnuuy@mathstodon.xyzSep 27, 2026, 12:53 AM
@atax1a ...lemme put this another way:
i am nonbinary, and i do happen to like specific syntactical elements of both ada and pascal. the way you phrase this comes of like you are misgendering me, and that feels upsetting.
i would *prefer* to at least understand where you are coming from with this, and what you dislike specifically. - Sep 27, 2026, 12:54 AM
@bnuuy find a therapist and do not make your white fragility into my problem
- bnuuybnuuy@mathstodon.xyzSep 27, 2026, 1:03 AM
@atax1a the part that made me uncomfortable (aside from not being able to make sense of it) is how what you said suggests i were cis and a man, when i am neither, not the ethnicity (are you using 'european' and 'white' interchangably here?) part.
...i'll leave it at that.
- Sep 27, 2026, 1:04 AM
@bnuuy this is so far from being our problem that we are on different planets. get lost
Sep 25, 2026, 11:22 PM@joe Most allistic IDE theming recommendation I've ever heard and very readily discardable
root42root42@chaos.socialSep 26, 2026, 8:13 AM