If it’s a microservice architecture using something like openapi and code generators could be a solution. Then the proper classes / types are created during the build step.

Does not avoid the fields being unused, or service B using an older version before being rebuild.

The approach would be similar as a library, but works across different languages while changing the definition only on one place.

That was a decade or two ago. Now you need a react SPA webapp using angular and Rust and utilize the bandwidth of the Cloud with machine learning. To find the IP.

You couldn’t find a gui designer for intellij, so you consider rewriting the whole application? in C++?!

Would seem easier to learn that ui framework.

For UI maybe look into javafx as an alternative. I haven’t used it, so can’t tell how the design process goes. But it seems to be the only current ui framework for Java.

Just because you got served bad food it does not mean you know how to make good food.

Why are you in programming related communities if you don’t enjoy it?

Easy access to small snippets of code you often need, but putting them in their own library would be crazy.

• Opening a file / db connection
• parsing xml/json/… ,
• template for unit tests,
• import and initialization of framework at work.

Depending on the IDE snippets can also move parts of the code around: (intellij live templates)

• variable.notnull -> if (variable != null) {… }
• “text %s”.format -> String.format(“text %s”,…)

Also bike shedding. Simple stuff may get many people willing to review / argue about how you should have used A over B, or even C

Big / complicated projects - forget it. Especially if if they would need major refactoring.

Not exactly what you want, but plug-ins like sonarlint can nudge you in the right direction.

The variable is set once, but the if expression is still evaluated every time (unless the compiler can optimize it)

(edit after skimming the article: yes,using the variable would solve the problem of the last example)

So there would be the branching overhead in every iteration. But that’s something the cpu branch prediction should cover, especially since the taken branch will be identical in every loop.

Same also applied to the implied condition to break the for loop (only the first few and last iteration should be wrong predictions)

How was the process of learning it / getting good for you, as it can be really frustrating in the beginning?

Look at the screenshot at the beginning of the article. Every possible state is stored in a div, with the state encoded in its Id. So it’s possible to reuse such “duplicate” states.

Strictly speaking, it would not be allowed for the same ID to occur multiple times.

Concepts still apply, so for a beginner an outdated book would still be a valuable source.

From there you can get up to date with the newest features with articles / tutorials. Cloud services probably should be first thing you develop for.

A compiler has mostly fixed rules for translation. The English language often is ambiguous and there are many ways to implement something based on a verbal description.

Programming by using the ai as a “compiler” would likely lead to many bugs that will be hard to impossible to trace without knowing the underlying implementation. But hitting compile again may lead to an accidental correct implementation and you’d be none the wiser why the test suddenly passes.

It’s ok as an assistant to generate boilerplate code, and warn you about some bugs / issues. Maybe a baseline implementation.

But by the time you’ve exactly described what and how you want it you may as well just write some higher level code.

Would have thought mathematicians would be slightly better at writing functions

Think of it more like bigger building blocks rather than single use functions. If there is an issue with the pizza arriving burnt black at the customer you don’t want to read through the logic for making the dough and adding toppings if the most likely cause is the oven.

Sure, you could add comment blocks to mark the sections. But you can’t easily jump to that exact point. With function names you can easily skim over the unimportant calls, or go through a list of functions/methods in the file and jump there directly. With comments that’s not a standard feature in IDEs.

Also that function does not scale well if you have more than 2 options of toppings. Maybe some are not compatible and logic needs to be added that you don’t use pineapple and banana on the same pizza, for example.

But I understand your argument about following through multiple layers of abstractions. That’s something that irritates me as well a bit, if you follow a function, that does nothing, but pass the same parameters through another function and return the result.

No guard clauses, or changes to the data, just 1:1 pass-through. And this them goes 2-3 levels deep before reaching real code again. Bonus of they all are in different files too.

The 2nd is the style guide used in C#, and therefore what you’ve encountered in unity.

Maybe also bias by the number / experience of people using it.

1st semester students getting shocked by public static void main(String args) and meming it on the internet.

Go on the other hand likely isn’t a common choice / option for a first language.

import codegolf
codegolf.challenge1() 

Assembly would be lower. You have more complex / direct instructions in assembly. Brain fuck is pretty much just a pure turing machine, and has 8 instructions.

X86 has ~ 1000 + variants. Even ARM with a smaller instruction set has 232 instructions.

In brain fuck to set a number you’d have to count up (or down - underflow) to that number. In assembly you just set it.

Somewhere I’ve read that current assembly code with Makros should be similar to writing C.

We ignore them.

Usually a translation system might return the key value if the translation is missing. By translating with “untranslated” as a default you’d get just that text filled as fallback.

Unless you reinvent the wheel for lookup and can just ignore your magic value, or put an if on every value lookup.

Might be a risk there.

you could document the steps required in text and add Screenshots.

but then why would they ask candidates to write functions like binary tree traversal from scratch during interviews? /s

Seems fitting for points 1 and 2 XD

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You could call it a botnet

The solution is obviously to replace the mods by bots, to fight other bots.

Battle bots, but virtual XD

It’s possible to write well organized PHP projects but it takes discipline, it doesn’t happen organically, and its really hard to fix once the project has grown significantly.

That applies to most languages, that you can write an awful unmaintainable mess. Especially when the project started by someone with little experience, or no knowledge about suitable design patterns.

Professionally I work across multiple OS’s and architectures so all .NET languages are kinda no-go’s. That’s where C++ really shines.

How about Java?