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I love Lua but I spend way more time than is fair hunting through my codebase to find the name of that one thing I was trying to access but that doesn’t seem to
by binary132 2y ago
I love Lua but I spend way more time than is fair hunting through my codebase to find the name of that one thing I was trying to access but that doesn’t seem to be present any more and where and when it was created. (Inb4 “better unit tests!” — typesystems do that bit of thinking for you…)
I feel the same way about Lisps, but more strongly. It’s really fast and fun to sketch stuff up until you’re about 3 or 4 functions deep trying to figure out the shape of that one inner associative array and what made you think this little adventure was a good idea in the first place.
- diggan 2y ago> It’s really fast and fun to sketch stuff up until you’re about 3 or 4 functions deep trying to figure out the shape of that one inner associative array and what made you think this little adventure was a good idea in the first place. But that's exactly the situations where lisps shines! Select the form in your editor, evaluate it and your editor tells you exactly what it is, both runtime and compile-time data, pure magic :)