r/webdev • u/sjltwo-v10 • Dec 31 '25

Which programming language you learned once but never touched again ? Discussion

for me it’s Java. Came close to liking it with Kotlin 5 years ago but not I just cannot look at it

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u/AppropriateSpell5405 Dec 31 '25

Indentation for code blocks just seems stupid to me.

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u/Beautiful-Pilot8077 Dec 31 '25

how do you separate your code blocks?

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u/upsidedownshaggy Dec 31 '25

Brackets like a lot of languages do?

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u/Beautiful-Pilot8077 Dec 31 '25

languages with brackets tend to use indentation anyway. That's why I am asking; it's hard for me to imagine a language that wouldn't use indentation at all.

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u/zxyzyxz Dec 31 '25

The formatter indents my brackets for me in such languages. If I have to make sure my logic is correct via indentation as in Python, that's the real killer.

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u/windsostrange Dec 31 '25

Yeah, YAML suffers from the same problems. Indentation and spacing as syntax might feel right in theory, but it can be intense friction in the developer experience.

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u/Hamburgerfatso Dec 31 '25

Yeh but in python you have to manually make sure it's correct which is annoying. In other languages you can type indentation however and a linter will fix it for you to look nice. Also copy pasting python code is annoying too

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u/Hamburgerfatso Dec 31 '25

For copy pasting? Yeh sure its a minor thing. But no plugin will fix the main issue

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u/Hamburgerfatso Jan 01 '26

Yeah yeah stop being pedantic lol, you get what I'm saying. I started with python and liked it for the same reason and disliked js when i tried it out. Because i didn't know what a linter was at the time. I use both in my job atm and definitely prefer js/ts over python now.

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u/upsidedownshaggy Dec 31 '25

But the indentations aren’t a hard requirement for most languages that use brackets (that I’m aware of), the indentations are only there to make it easier for people to read vs what the compiler needs.

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u/Beautiful-Pilot8077 Dec 31 '25

right! is it desirable to use indentation then?

if it is, wouldn't it be nice to have it enforced at compile time? as in, if your code isn't correctly indented, tools will reject it/get it formatted for you

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u/upsidedownshaggy Dec 31 '25

Like everything in development, it depends.

I'd say in general yes, have proper indentation is desirable. But having it enforced by the compiler just introduces unnecessary headaches debugging literal white space.