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Python vs. Java (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 11 points 7 months ago (13 children)

I vaguely remember hearing this this was only really available for toy code and that this function created the class ignored the arguments and qualified println when you compiled it, so it wasn't actually that useful?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    Printing to console is often only used for toy code anyway.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    Wait, how do you debug your code?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    A logger? Console prints are shitty in general but especially when you have an actual logger already

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You know what println never did? Run arbitrary code on my toaster.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Neither did Log4j in basically all cases, some maniac just put arbitrary code callbacks into their logger, undocumented and enabled by default. The insane part isn't the feature itself it's the fact it's enabled by default in a logger of all things.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Oh man, I thought that was one of the classic jokes :'( I am out of touch

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    People in my experience are actually very serious about the standard out to debug log which is... baffling. Same people generally outright refuse to learn how to use a debugger in languages where those are pleasant

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    Oh I'm completely serious. The joke is that everyone does it but everyone knows not to do it. I started doing it when I first ran into problems debugging actor contexts, and never stopped.

    The good printlns become logs, obviously

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