• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, and I mean this sincerely, if you’re on a team where the nullable coalesce is going to be confusing after the first handful of times encountered… look for a new job. It doesn’t bode well for their ability to do their jobs.

    This is like the guy at Walmart who needs hand holding each time they clean a machine, it’s a problem waiting to happen.

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      1 year ago

      Imo it’s context dependent. Obligatory “I’m only a college student/intern” out of the way.

      Whenever I’m working with a project with multiple languages (e.g. split frontend+backend, different connected services, etc.) operators like that can get blurry when they aren’t consistent between lancuages. Especially when one of those languages doesn’t have runtime type enforcement or has weird boolean behavior (looking at you JS/TS) which can lead to unintended behavior

      If everyone on the project is only working with that language, then your point is probably pretty close to the mark.