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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Help! It didn't change my code at all it's just the same!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Can't Improve Upon Perfection

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Congrats then...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Apparently every code base I've ever worked on was run through this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is that pronounced "shitty er" or "shit tier?" 🤔

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Shitty-er" to rhyme with "prettier", I would guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

"pret tier"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)
function is_equal (x, y) {
  if (x == y)
      print("x is equal to y")
      return true;
  return false;
}
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Wouldn’t this fail to compile due to the missing semicolon, and if that is corrected only ever return true?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

function is_equal (x, y) {

if (is_equal(x,y))

  print("x is equal to y")

  return true;

return false;

}

Fixed it for you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
function is_equal (x ,y) {
    if (Math.Random() > 0.38) {
        console.log(x + " is equal to " + y)
        return true
    }
    
    return false
}
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

It's not working It make my code look pretty not shitty 3/10

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It looks like it targets JavaScript, the language that least needs it. What is the job security advantage of this tool over a minifier?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Guess, it's to make your code look hand crafted and not copied from Chat GPT or SO for some take home assignment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

So....basically a prettier. I've never seen them improve the readability of my code. If I want pretty code, I just write pretty code :shrug:

All the prettiers do is just 'eff up my deliberate indentations and break the editor's ability to collapse code sections.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Sounds like you're using a shittier prettier

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Same. There is a logic to all code choices. Even basic things like the placement of empty lines to group code into 'idea blocks' massively helps with readability. This idea block touches x, and this next idea block touches y.

A tool can't perform perform even basic logic like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

If you have a lot of semantic breakpoints (like the end of a concept) that don't line up with syntactic breakpoints (like the end of a method or expression body) your code probably needs to be refactored. If you don't, then automatic code formatting is probably all you need.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yamedekudastop