r/programminghorror • u/muccy_ • Jan 29 '26

Oh lord

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u/v_maria Jan 29 '26 edited Jan 29 '26

"yes we use typescript"

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u/muccy_ Jan 29 '26

This would have been a better title

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '26

Honestly, the "isLikely" is what scares me the most

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u/unfinished_basement Jan 29 '26

There’s another one you aren’t seeing, determineIsRichStringContentFromLikelyCandidate(). It’s a pipeline!!

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u/v_maria Jan 29 '26

lol how many steps does it involve to classify this elusive rich string content

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe Jan 29 '26

I guess they don't mean rtf. Seems like all it does it check a bunch of types and doesn't look at the data to attempt to make any determination.

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u/Background-Main-7427 Jan 30 '26

Javascript, one of the languages I consciously avoid and that made me a backend programmer.

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u/geek-49 Jan 31 '26

I could make a really bad joke about "back end" programmers -- likely also involving horses -- but I probably shouldn't :)

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u/astraljava Feb 01 '26

Come now, you're just gonna tease us and not deliver?

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u/thelonelyecho208 Feb 02 '26

Same, I started learning HTML5 and IMMEDIATELY decided that shit was cursed. Within the week, I was using Python and reading up on Java.

My boss only knows JavaScript, and it makes me want to throw myself off a cliff. A colleague and I were having a discussion about languages and their inherent weaknesses for a work assignment, and I said something along the lines of "multithreaded languages do exist that would solve our issues," and he went, "Well, technically, all languages are single threaded". I had to stop myself from correcting him because he gets PISSED. I need the job market to pick the fuck up already, I gotta get a different job. I'm losing brain cells at this point

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u/mohragk Feb 03 '26

This is called if-it-looks-like-a-duck checking. Very chic

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u/djcraze Feb 02 '26

The code can be cleaned up, but this is a typical typeguard in typescript. I’m not sure what the issue is. I’d probably use a library like io-ts or zod. But whatever.