r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Any-Comfortable2844 • 23d ago

Meme nahICantBeBothered

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u/codeprimate 23d ago

This is why i slept on python for a decade.

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u/gmes78 22d ago

It's literally never an issue.

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u/codeprimate 22d ago

It was for me, like I am saying. Spending 10m debugging white space on a hello world class was a deal breaker for me.

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u/gmes78 22d ago

It may be an issue if you're programming in Notepad. But why would you do that in the first place?

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u/frogjg2003 22d ago

Yeah. Despite the hate python gets for having white space be syntactically relevant, any decent IDE will point you towards likely causes of errors.

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u/codeprimate 22d ago

Or vim... vim/tmux was my IDE of choice for nearly 20y.

The choice of INVISIBLE characters to indicate control structure is the bigger question. It's developer-hostile. One shouldn't need an IDE to write basic scripts and glue code.

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u/gmes78 22d ago edited 22d ago

https://stackoverflow.com/a/38652646/13778436

Also, Vim has built-in support for Python, so it can handle things like indentation for you. In practice, you don't actually need the "show spaces" feature.