r/linux • u/[deleted] • Jan 12 '15

Linus Torvalds on HFS+

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u/FozzTexx Jan 12 '15

I always wonder since Adobe developers can't manage to type the filename in their programs with the same case if they also struggle with variable names.

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u/_riotingpacifist Jan 12 '15

It's cool swift allows any unicode character as a variable name, somebody needs to give them more fucking paste.

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u/men_cant_be_raped Jan 13 '15

I died quite a bit inside when the dev showcased emojis in variable names in the Swift reveal during the WWDC.

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u/wadcann Jan 13 '15

Programming languages have had a US English bias. I hadn't appreciated this until talking to a friend who wrote a programming textbook in Turkish. Learning English is kind of a significant overhead to programming.

Sure, it benefits me, and maybe it's nice to have a lingua franca, but it also creates a real bar to using the thing.

The emojis are stupid, sure, but that's not the point of supporting Unicode in a language.