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@nthcdr this assumes that people write sensible and thorough commit messages, instead of brief five-word ones or, say, song lyrics. Both of which I’ve seen.
I at least try, except maybe for the other day where my commit message consisted entirely of an exasperated “why”, followed by a revert.
That being said, every commit message where I work is required to contain a ticket number (and the server will reject the push if you don’t) so at least there’s that for context.
@TehPers I really wish Python had a satisfying way to do interfaces.
Python has had syntax support for type annotations for a while now. The Python runtime doesn’t enforce the typing at all, but it can be enforced by a linter or by your IDE. And I believe you can introspect the type annotations at runtime, because they are actually part of the syntax.
There’s even an alternative way of doing type annotations through specially formatted comments, just in case you might still need to write code that is backwards compatible with Python 2.
If your code files don’t contain more lines of comments than lines of actual code, then you’re doing it wrong. (For Python, docstrings count as comments)
And your comments shouldn’t say what each line of code is doing. If you can code, then you can already tell what each line is doing by just reading the code. The comments should explain WHY it’s being done this way, or HOW it’s being done, or highlight some pitfalls that might snare a future developer, and generally just give some higher level context to a line or block of code.
@JackbyDev oh damn wish I’d thought of that
@LaggyKar I’ve never used it
(tagging @programming for Mastodon→Lemmy federation – ignore this comment)
@wth I have worked with GTK3 myself, and once I got used to its quirks, actually found it quite nice to work with. I was writing my code in Python too, which added some extra challenge, but the GObject introspection took a lot of the pain out of interoperating with what’s basically a C library.
However, I’m aware that GTK has a bit of a reputation. The look and feel is great on Linux desktops that use it natively, but I do remember it looking pretty ugly cross-platform.
@snowe It’s got its quirks. For example, if I am replying to someone who’s not on programming.dev then I have to make sure to tag @programming (or another account on the instance) in order for my post to still federate to your server, otherwise only the person I’m replying to would see my reply and it wouldn’t show in comments.
I did discover that adding the tag as a trailing reply to a missing comment thread will cause the entire reply chain to federate, so that’s neat.
@snowe a very common reason with Google products, I’ve found; up to and including not wanting to provide that product anymore.
@[email protected] screw it, let’s try HTML. [🖼 medias.meow.social/media_attac…]
@snowe if not, I’ll try markdown:
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@snowe not sure if this image attachment is going to federate correctly from Mastodon to Lemmy
@snowe Typing the character. With GBoard it’s switch to numbers+symbols then press and hold a number (in this case 1) to access fractions and superscripts.
@snowe @themoonisacheese I can type ¹ on a smartphone pretty easily
@triarius Careful, the furries will hear you and show up in the thread.
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@sbstp @bouh I can just see people giving fecetious answers to this question.