Mine is that the useState hook is an actual plague on the entire React ecosystem. Regardless of your opinions of React, if you wanna use something then use it right.
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Perl is a fuckin' awesome programming language, and it's too bad other languages didn't learn from it.
I will forever miss you $_
Other languages took perl's regex engine
I agree as a PERL programmer ; definitely a bad opinion
Perl is write-only code. Larry Wall raised a monkey's paw and asked for a language that works the way programmers want. So most scripts are the first thing someone tried - unfiltered by rigid syntax putting your thoughts in order, or compiler warnings bringing side effects to mind, or even names forcing you to decide what a variable is. An uncommented Perl script is raw brain patterns decoded as ASCII.
Thank god it runs like shit. Fast C isn't exactly gorgeous, but any project that compiles is proof the coder fought the machine and won.
I hate this trope that languages should “learn” from each other. Because this typically means “should copy features / syntax”.
If I want to use Perl, I use Perl. I don’t need Perl in Rust, then I wouldn’t need Rust anymore.