It was literally like that. I had a script of about 310 lines and the main function was like 10-20 lines of code. I had a very nice Setup of objects that handled all functionality possible behaviours independent and so my main function was just receiving a user input from another function and add accordingly which included like 3-4 different scenarios that are being handled in the main function.

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[–] lwhjp@piefed.blahaj.zone 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a beautiful feeling when everything is nicely encapsulated.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 10 points 2 months ago

Its also very nice, when you spend hours writing everything else and then once all of it has been tested you write a few lines of code in the main function and 10 minutes later everything works as it should.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago

"Hmmmm. This codebase seems surprisingly lightweight."

Opens random 'Helper' class.

"Oh... Oh boy."

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

I mean... that is just good design. The main function should be the initializer and orchestrator of the logic. You should be able to look at the main function and tell, at a high level, what the program is doing. It should be usually pretty basic and procedural. Other functions handle the details and complexity.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago

Yeah, always found that weird as a junior. I basically never touched the main-function, because well, it set up some fundamentals and then called some other function or created some objects and then I was tweaking things somewhere below that.

Now that I'm a senior and taking over the lead of projects, I'm the person that touches the main-function and others generally do not. 🥴

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"My Script" should be another dozen books the same thickness as main.

Not, I stress, for the sake of it, but for proper implementation of the suitable patterns for the application.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

Well, it was really just a script that has exact one purpose. I just split it up beautifully, so that my main function is very short.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago

Just be wary of writing ravioli code which forces the person reading your script to have to constantly jump around it in order to figure out what is actually going on.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

main : IO ()
main = test allTests

No OOP in sight: https://gitlab.com/bss03/grtt/-/blob/f760eb6f0c1f1b171a1a3a114e156f008e4227d0/grtt-machine/test/src/Main.idr

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Script? Not library?

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

In my case it was a script, but for libraries this would hold true too.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

Haskell also tends to have really small main functions, since the functional paradigm encourages splitting it up

[–] andioop@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

i have been summoned

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

How it should be.

[–] seadoo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You should post the code!

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Here you go: https://gitlab.com/foss9293204/southpark-downloader

Keep in mind, this is in production code that works in a testing environment, but is not ready yet. Theres also almost no documentation.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is it normal to need an account to view code on GitLab?

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, yes

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then sadly, the code shall remain a mystery for me.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

See my other edited comment.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Idk, this is the first time I used gitlab in private (i literally just set up my personal gitlab account for this, since pastebin complained about some parts of the code).

Edit: It should be publically visible now: https://gitlab.com/Aipathon/southpark-downloader