PHP is Wack. (Coding in a Random Language Every Day) 

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​@@1337Munkey😂 it can be very hacky, but these days we have strong property typing, return types, dynamic properties disallowed by default, enums (idk why it took so long to get enums). Variables are still not typed, but editor tools alleviate that problem, and that's most always in a limited scope, so its not so bad for maintainability.

I do pcp in my php lambo

If you are trying to get better at Rust, PHP probably isn't your thing. The latest and greatest in the world of Javascript is more like it for you. Just don't forget to die your hair a bright luminous color, get a nose ring, and make your gender and sexuality fully fluid.

Basically you'd got all the boilerplate and crap that you've got in Java and C#, why not just switch to one of those languages if that's your bag?@@reed6514

you can even use PHP own's development server

Channel is called low level learning not unsafe server side programming learning.

huh? Doesn't matter.@@Lelende

@@Lelende What he is doing in the video is equally unsafe as running it in the terminal. The difference is, in terminal he can use ' ', and he won't need a web server. It's just easier

you know he clearly states his speciality as "low level" and not a web language right

I feel like the people saying PHP is rubbish have skill issues.

@@Mlataza I feel like people defending PHP have no clue

Any language that has more than a thousand in-built functions, which are not namespaced or anything, and from which a good portion is obsolete because they are insecure deserves more than a little bit of hate, imho. It's a nightmare to use.

The implementation of the ternary operator in PHP is wrong. In every other language on earth (except for Go, which banned ternary conditionals because "they can be abused"), you can write something like this: first_option ? 1 : second_option ? 2 : third_option ? 3 : fourth_option ? 4 : 5; But in PHP, you need to write a bunch of parentheses because the language spec screwed up the associativity of the operation: first_option ? 1 : (second_option ? 2 : (third_option ? 3 : (fourth_option ? 4 : 5)))

A regex moment

step1: Have a problem step2: Decide to solve the problem with regex step3: You now have 2 problems

Me everytime considering regex

Would love to see your whitepaper!

So all your solutions are *pure*? /j

@@ChungusTheLarge lol

Same, parsing is a breeze

Yep, solutions thus far have been rather simple. No more than 20 lines...

Let the man fail in peace.

Yeah I think the most pedantic way to name these variables would be something like "CumulativeMax"+ColorName

Seems like engineer's vs theoretician's perspective. You @marklonergan3898, with a theoretician's approach, are focused on exploring the system's limits, while LLL, with an engineer's mindset, is concentrating on determining the minimal requirements essential for the system's functionality. I, myself, am much more a theoretician.

Watching him write PHP was so painful. And I'm surprised he's not friendly with regex. It's long been a love of mine.

This is one of the real problems with PHP... the web is overflowing with half-assed examples, hints and tutorials written by people who have absolutely no idea what they're doing... if you do what any newbie would do in any language and Google for help, with PHP, your chances of striking garbage are SO high.

@@edgeeffect yeah, i started out writing very bad php partially bc of that. But php was also very bad when i started lol. It's also a benefit though, because the "bad" php is probably an easier way to get your foot in the door of programming.

@@reed6514 Even tought PHP was "bad" in the past, not bad but a scripting language more than a serious lang, doesn't mean it wasn't possible to write good code. In fact, for me PHP in the origin was similar to Python, that's why I think Python is bad, thanks god PHP is evolving to a typed language.

@@MDMAviation PHP and Python are nothing alike. Need I remind you the absurdity of triple equals.

Also he could have used the integrated dev server if he really wanted it on the web or enable error debugging in nginx instead of making nginx display 500 error pages. Most people will think that is the debugging experience of php when in reality PHP is really helpful at debugging code and knowing where the code crashes ( compared to other interpreted languages anyway ).

@@eptic-c I think it's because PHP has a culture of working in prod where you don't wanna turn on stack traces. Imo working without errors is a nice skill to get decent at (forces you to internalize the syntax and libraries), but proper errors are also essential when working on complex systems

@@pokefreak2112 "I think it's because PHP has a culture of working in prod" - it doesn't.

Rust sucks

why?

me too

Funny... I would say exactly the opposite.

as much as JS is hot garbage, I have to disagree

Nice

Thanks 😅

tbh if you're going with scratch instead of much simpler drag and drop things, might as well pick gml.

@@enkiimuto1041 I repeat: it's way more appealing, you ain't gonna get a young kid into coding with GML, and i mean 7-years-old young, at least that's the age i picked up scratch by myself, you get to see results of your code really quickly and it's insanely simple

​​​@@enkiimuto1041gotta disagree, my high school used Scratch to teach the initial principles and it was far more intuitive than the abortion of a language we had to use afterwards. We could make games in it with only a handful of hours. Dim xArr(1 To 3) As Integer = {1, 2, 3} If you know you know

If it wasn't abusive to keep a kid isolated from the world. I'd get them started on assembly, they'd just take it up naturally without knowing better and then you have a genius on your hands xD

😂😂 I will forever pronounce the hard g.

You probably then pronounce Jack incorrectly too, like djäcks/djecks, if you think jacks sounds like gex in regex. Very different sounds.

I will try tomorrows challenge in PHP then :) I used Javascript so far, and it have worked great also.

Yeah, I thought this looked super easy to do in php, buut tbf I've been devving php for a decade.& he doesn't even know he can make a cli script lol 😂

Facts. PHP has extremelly rich stdlib. It's not particullary consistent, but you can get very far without installing a single dependency. It's just the tutorials talking basics around the web are written by indians running XAMP for 20 years and still doing something horrible on every other line.

:D

I can code in a lot of languages, but no one said it was good ;)

I love regex, but it IS tricky & its a very different mental model than traditional programming language. I never have gotten good at lookarounds though & I'm sure there's other gaps in my regex knowledge

Regex gets a lot of hate because of how quickly it can become complicated. Like, if you're doing something simple like checking a pattern, it's pretty easy, but when you start adding in things like capture groups, back references, and more complicated search patterns, it gets really confusing and difficult to follow really quickly.

Also has the option of use as CLI.

From my experience regex is like recursion: at first it's really confusing and you wonder if it's even worth learning, but once you get the hang of it, it's a very powerful/convenient tool in the odd cases where it's not strictly necessary but is very fast to write and easy to read (for other people that also learned it anyways)

Same goes for another popular coder I watch on youtube. Maybe we need to make our own video series! lol

This year it honestly could just be AI. Like, you're not supposed to do that, but people could setup prompts before hand, copy paste the prompt and their data, and get a solution quickly.

a few people record their entire session. I think the person sitting in 4th is using python to do it. but 12 seconds is a little insane.

12 seconds seems too fast even for an AI to generate and submit the answer - seems more likely they found an exploit to get the questions (or answers) early

There are few techniques that you can use to solve very fast, like using string parsing libraries and knowing the ins and outs of your language, and basically only reading the sample input/output and guessing what needs to be done. The first day was quite easy as you just needed to get the first digit from one end and you can repeat the same logic by reversing the string. Competitive programmers are really good at these stuffs, so I’m not surprised by the 12 seconds.

@@esiarpze7908 well, fair enough, I could just be massively underestimating their skills and the approach they take to the solution - I'd love to see it done live

"How to say that you are 40 years old without saying that you are 40 years old?" jkjk

@@konstantinsotov6251 actually I'm a student that has to do some Fortran for some calculation software. Honestly, it's not so Bad as long as you want to do number crunching. If you want to use it for anything else you'r in for a miserable time.

And we even have enums and strong typing now! I was reluctant to get on board with strong typing and now i just think that was really dumb of me lol. I thought of PHP's dynamicness as a feature, but not any more ... unless I'm prototyping. It's nice to prototype and not worry about types and stuff.

@@reed6514 Oh, I hopped right on the strong type train. Very happy to see that around. You can still prototype very quickly, but when you go to production you can have the strictness needed for a sane working environment. But even things like match statements coming to PHP was super nice. Used them a lot in Rust and it was so nice when they came to PHP as well. Enums and backed enums are also awesome, but kinda toothless when it's compared to their Rust counterpart. You can't for example build a Result Enum, or an Option Enum because the enums themselves can't carry an arbitrary value of T. They can only be Strings or Ints. This hamstrung their Enums in PHP, but it's still nice to have a saner option for building up interfaces with known types and values.

F#

I also had Pascal/Delphi and Fortran, but his threats scared me!

Write only programming.

No, Clojure so he has to install the JVM and figure out all the crazy build systems

Or at least prefix with a and then simply use .

This is so simple you could hand write a single pass parser in Go for it in no time.