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  • Victor@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•Programming languages
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    7 days ago

    TypeScript, because I like programming for the web, which is also my profession. Not a huge amount of choice in that space.

    Otherwise I like the fish shell scripting language, very simple, very comfortable. Much smoother than bash. Has definitely helped me simplify all my helper scripts and made them more robust and less error-prone.

    I’d like to learn OCaml next. Seems like fun. And maybe zig. Widely different, I imagine.

  • Victor@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Shots fired
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    8 days ago

    Interesting workflow.

    When I’m in Helix I usually just use the buffer jump list, or quick jump with last buffer, or open the list of modified files (according to git), or use splits. All built-in functionality. 👍

    It always baffled me with (neo)vim how it was so powerful, yet so incapable unless you put in a lot of work. The potential is there, it just doesn’t deliver unless you basically build your own experience on top of the vim platform.

    It got to be too much for me, I think.

  • Victor@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Shots fired
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    8 days ago

    Indeed. The only issue I have with Helix is the TOML format of the config files. It’s kind of clunky, especially in the languages file. It would be cool if you could be a little less verbose in there. Like YAML or something, and do deeper nesting in a cleaner way, and references for deduplication of settings that are identical, like for JavaScript and TypeScript.