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Minor nitpick, but I really wish the code in the screenshot had more newlines in it.



That's true. It's off-putting and looks ugly to most people.

One of the quirky things about the vector language community is that many of us like to write "wide" code that uses the whole line. The goal is to have as much of the program visible on-screen at one time as possible so you can minimize scrolling around, having to open other files, etc.

I was skeptical at first but I came to like coding in that way. I noticed that when I have to pull up that library's source to look at how something works I sorta lose track of what I was doing and that's how bugs happen.

Of course that example code isn't really a shining example of the practice and should be reworked. Tutorial stuff shouldn't feel dense. Thank you for the feedback.


Yes, especially since the description says "only 6 lines!" yet it's clearly more than 6 lines.


In my humble defense, the latter half of that example (from "'test is { ... }") is the "JSON" encoder being tested / used! But this example could definitely use some work if its going to be featured prominently.




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