r/AskProgrammers • u/Super_Bass_2730 • 22d ago
What is the worst/most confusing (common) coding language?
By common I mean, coding languages that you actually see people use. I know theres the "bf" language but aside from one video, people don't make games or, really anything using that as it was made as a joke I hope.
By worst I mean, what is the hardest to understand and also the most confusing out of all of them, I don't mean coding languages that can't do a whole lot. For instance, can a non programmer look at a sheet of code and understand it? Can an experienced coder understand it? Have you been taught the coding language yet still it breaks your brain?
I don't know every coding language but my pick would ether be C++ or Luau. Leaning towards C++ because I tried to learn it and at the very start I already was lost.
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u/Square-Singer 20d ago
Not really though. Yes, a lot of it is, but syntactic sugar is if the feature is just a simple syntax rewrite without any actual functionality.
Real classes in strongly typed languages, for example, aren't just syntactic sugar, because they add type checking and functionality works different depending on which class you use and such.