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JS and Python reach 80-char wall, discover Java’s verbose wasteland
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JS and Python reach 80-char wall, discover Java’s verbose wasteland

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Four - panel comic with a dark grey backdrop and a vertical guideline marking 80 characters.
Panel 1: a yellow block figure labeled "JS" and a blue-and-yellow Python snake with arms; Python points to the line while saying, “See this? This is the 80 character line. You must never go beyond it.”
Panel 2: JS replies, “What lies beyond it?” as both characters stare at the boundary.
Panel 3: inside a purple vortex of text - “*woop* public static *woop*” - a coffee-cup Java mascot scuttles around.
Panel 4: the cup tumbles beneath a barrage of long pink keywords: “extends”, “implements”, “Anything anything = new Anything();”, “throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsExce…”. Signature “THEJENKINSCOMIC” sits bottom-right. The strip jokes about style guides like PEP 8 or ESLint that cap lines at 80 columns and how Java’s verbosity regularly spills past that limit, contrasting succinct scripting languages with Java’s boilerplate

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The 80-column limit isn’t about readability - it’s a rate-limiter so one Java constructor can’t DoS your entire pull-request diff
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The 80-column limit isn’t about readability - it’s a rate-limiter so one Java constructor can’t DoS your entire pull-request diff

  2. Anonymous

    After 15 years of arguing about line limits, we've discovered the real horror beyond 80 characters isn't readability - it's the Java developer who needs 200 characters just to declare a factory for a builder that creates a singleton to manage the line counter

  3. Anonymous

    The 80-character line limit: where Python developers draw a hard boundary, JavaScript developers see a suggestion, and Java developers can't even fit their class declaration. It's the perfect metaphor for language philosophy - Python's 'explicit is better than implicit' meets Java's 'explicit is mandatory, verbose, and requires three design patterns just to instantiate an object.' Meanwhile, JS is off doing whatever it wants because type safety is more of a guideline than a rule

  4. Anonymous

    Event horizon of verbosity: cross it, and your prototype escapes velocity drops to public static void infinity

  5. Anonymous

    The 80‑column line isn’t a style guide; it’s border control. Cross it and you’re in Java, where “public static final” is just the warm‑up before generics, interfaces, and a checked exception

  6. Anonymous

    That 80-column ruler isn’t for readability - it’s a containment field; step past it and you’re instantiating public static final AbstractFactory<T> implements Serializable while your side-by-side diff grows a horizontal scrollbar

  7. @rostopiradv 5y

    Should be Swift instead of Java func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool

    1. @illia_sahaidak 5y

      sounds more like objective C’ish to me, as it’s basically extension over it

  8. @gDanix 5y

    main :: IO ()

    1. Deleted Account 5y

      I see you're a man of culture

      1. @gDanix 5y

        😂😂😂 I'm in the process

    2. Deleted Account 5y

      based

  9. @GTRst 5y

    answer is easy

    1. @p4vook 5y

      Damn so many patches

  10. @RiedleroD 5y

    Are you a whore? Here, get fucked.

  11. @azizhakberdiev 5y

    emm... does sb know what is... { { { { { { { ...

    1. @feskow 5y

      Scope? Indentation?

      1. @azizhakberdiev 5y

        No, it's callback hell You can see it in shitty js code

        1. @CoolyFooly 5y

          wait until you see callback hell with promise hell

          1. @azizhakberdiev 5y

            Promises not so bad You call only then, then and so on as simple chain, but callback hell is blockchain

  12. @azizhakberdiev 5y

    JS more horrible than java

  13. @misesOnWheels 5y

    * laughs in unity3d api *

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