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Why make it complicated? (europe.pub)
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[โ€“] Scoopta@programming.dev 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it rarer? I think a lot of modern languages go for the first option but pretty much all C style languages use the latter. It's probably a wash for which is more popular I'd think.

[โ€“] tdawg@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

I'm talking about quantity not the popularity of a given language. There are certainly a number of popular languages that follow that convention