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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Everyone who indents code with 4 spaces also eats children.
Using spaces at all is indefensible. We have a universal control character specifically to indent code however you want, clientside. I don't care if your variables line up perfectly when they don't fit on one line. Stop trying to do ASCII art with semantic syntax.
Ahh see, off-side rules is another shit that should die already (whitespace as indentation/scope)
Load-bearing whitespace like Python, yeah, absolutely. We can't take a language seriously when the primary cause of incompatibility is literally unprintable.
But indent your damn code. It's universal for a reason. If the text exists to be read by humans, format it for how humans think.
what are you, a 2-space indenter?
I hit tab and just never go deeper than 3 indents.
Oh come on, it's fun to nest ternaries 15 layers deep and have your code just slide off to the right
I am a fan of a good spaghetti, don't get me wrong, but only as a treat sometimes.
I hope you mean as opposed to a tab that's 4 spaces long. 2-spacers can get mauled by angry emus.
True, 2 spaces is better :3
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