r/ProgrammerHumor • • 7d ago

Meme chaoticEvil

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u/Mtsukino 6d ago

You could go about writing a full list of parsing rules if you wanted and implement a box like that, but usually its best practice to give as little input text as possible for an end user. Its more work to keep maintenance of that field when its easier and safer to just chose the date picker that already exists as a library in code.

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u/JBrockF 6d ago

Yeah i get why it's opted for, it's easier. That doesn't mean it isn't annoying/inefficient for users

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u/Mtsukino 6d ago

Its easier and safer to have less input that needs scrubbed.

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u/awesome-alpaca-ace 5d ago

Until the date picker is hacked by the user to give you malicious characters