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Why do people faint at the sight of plain-text code? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Front end versus back end. The people who make programming languages are back-end developers. Their strengths lie with making something that works, not something that looks pretty.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I beg to differ

I can read plain-text PHP, Python or Ruby code.
I can't read plain-text, uncoloured HTML or Vue code.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I can't read plain-text, uncoloured HTML

That's all we had back in the day. The only difference that jumps out to me is having attributes, but that's still not that crazy. Even back when I did web stuff, I used notepad++ without any particular higlighting the vast majority of the time for plain HTML (though not JS).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I would argue backend languages are infinitely Easter than frontend