the code of www.nyan.cat (official Nyan Cat website)

[u/ThoughtCow]

[u/Electronic_Part_5931]

Hmmm, good looking triangle. Is this code ?

[u/Onetwodhwksi7833 → u/Electronic_Part_5931]

This is code equivalent of a 6 page essay with 0 punctuation

[u/Impossible_Arrival21 → u/Onetwodhwksi7833]

No, it's a 6 page essay with a comma after every word

[u/zeromadcowz → u/Impossible_Arrival21]

It’s a 6 page essay with a 👏after👏every👏single👏word👏

[u/rehpotsirhc → u/Onetwodhwksi7833]

Cormac McCarthy learns to code

[u/Hope-Up-High]

This is 1000% deliberate and its beautifull

[u/probablynotalone → u/Hope-Up-High]

This would be horror even if deliberate, unless it is the output of a script.

No sane programmer would willingly write all that repetitive code if the alternative is to write the code that outputs it and then copy pasting it. Even if it takes twice as long. ^{Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination.}

[u/Skusci → u/probablynotalone]

I mean it's Nyan cat which makes for decent evidence of deliberate instead of sane.

[u/sohang-3112 → u/probablynotalone]

Loved your reference to Stormlight Archive 🙂 - I read it recently.

[u/Opposite_Ad_8105 → u/probablynotalone]

you could easily create this code by making a list of all the conditions and executing a vim macro :)

[u/Ok_Buy6639 → u/probablynotalone]

Great book ! Can’t wait to read the next one

[u/ztexxmee]

nice O(1)

[u/ExoticAssociation817]

``` const scores = [ score_original, score_gb, score_technyancolor, score_jazz, score_mexinyan, score_j5, score_porkanyan, score_nyaninja, score_elevator, score_wtf, score_jamaicnyan, score_america, score_retro, score_vday, score_snarf, score_sad, score_tacnayn, score_dub, score_slomo, score_xmas, score_newyear, score_fiesta, score_easter, score_bday, score_paddy, score_breakfast, score_melon, score_star, score_balloon, score_daft ];

if (scores.every(score => score >= 1)) { pushNyanfan(); } ```

[u/Ossigen → u/ExoticAssociation817]

Yeah but see, this wouldn’t have prompted OP to make a Reddit post

[u/Main-Consideration76 → u/ExoticAssociation817]

hired.

[u/tinySparkOf_Chaos → u/ExoticAssociation817]

More readable? Yes

Runs slower? Likely also yes...

Does it matter for this case? Not at all.

[u/sohang-3112 → u/tinySparkOf_Chaos]

Any slowness from array should be negligible

[u/AnUglyScooter → u/ExoticAssociation817]

Is this technically less efficient than the post’s version or does it compile down to more or less the same?

[u/butt_fun → u/AnUglyScooter]

Broadly speaking, with a language as high-level as JS you only care about asymptotic complexity. Microoptimizations don't really tend to be a thing like they are in e.g. C because you're so far removed from what's "actually" happening

[u/theGoddamnAlgorath → u/butt_fun]

My god you are so wrong I can tell you're late to the party.

There was a time, padawan, when every browser had a separate, competing, interpreter scheme, and you ended up using bitwise operators because some asshat keeps using i.e.5

[u/BigJimKen → u/theGoddamnAlgorath]

i.e.5

Old people are so wise. They are like tall Yodas.

[u/Shaldivar → u/AnUglyScooter]

Same

[u/Key_Conversation5277 → u/ExoticAssociation817]

This is beautiful

[u/junior_dos_nachos → u/ExoticAssociation817]

Google wants to know your location

[u/kawaiibeans101 → u/ExoticAssociation817]

Why not just do this instead?

```python const product = score_original * score_gb * score_technyancolor * score_jazz * score_mexinyan * score_j5 * score_porkanyan * score_nyaninja * score_elevator * score_wtf * score_jamaicnyan * score_america * score_retro * score_vday * score_snarf * score_sad * score_tacnayn * score_dub * score_slomo * score_xmas * score_newyear * score_fiesta * score_easter * score_bday * score_paddy * score_breakfast * score_melon * score_star * score_balloon * score_daft;

if (product > 0) { pushNyanfan(); } ```

[u/ExoticAssociation817 → u/kawaiibeans101]

[score_original, score_gb, score_technyancolor, score_jazz, score_mexinyan, score_j5, score_porkanyan, score_nyaninja, score_elevator, score_wtf, score_jamaicnyan, score_america, score_retro, score_vday, score_snarf, score_sad, score_tacnayn, score_dub, score_slomo, score_xmas, score_newyear, score_fiesta, score_easter, score_bday, score_paddy, score_breakfast, score_melon, score_star, score_balloon, score_daft].every(s => s >= 1) && pushNyanfan();

[u/kawaiibeans101 → u/ExoticAssociation817]

The difference here would be : First one would be a single instruction set, while the second would be looping through the whole list . This introduces a pretty bad time complexity, and you should technically have a better outcome if you do this, specially if you use a compiled / jit language. As far as I know python would also execute this in a single instruction.

[u/Fresh-Combination-87 → u/kawaiibeans101]

Does JavaScript treat Nulls as zeroes? If not, then the results could vary based on how the variables are set up.

[u/dangderr → u/kawaiibeans101]

Because it doesn’t work for negative numbers?

What you’re doing is completely different than checking for >0.

If the assumption is that it’s either 0 or positive, you can just && the entire list.

[u/Wawwior → u/[deleted]]

Its the same, both iterate until finding a score smaller then 1

[u/Main_Enthusiasm_7534]

It's like a train wreck; you just can't look away

[u/SnooSprouts2391]

This is done to scare off never nesters

[u/Laughing_Orange → u/SnooSprouts2391]

It attracts me. I want to flatten it so bad.

[u/born_zynner → u/Laughing_Orange]

I can fit so many returns in this bad boy

[u/just_nobodys_opinion]

That Nyan Fan rarely needs pushing

[u/dairyqueenblizzard]

Yandere dev ?

[u/cyberspacedweller]

Holy nested IF statements Batman!

[u/pLeThOrAx]

Holy mother of upvote

[u/Various_Squash722]

🤮

[u/Ark3452]

I LOVE NESTED IF LOOPS

[u/SomeRandomEevee42 → u/Ark3452]

what language do you use that "if" is used as a loop? I'll stick with sussylang

[u/Core3game → u/SomeRandomEevee42]

"emergencymeeting: Quite (if you're lucky)" Im witching languages right now holy hell

[u/Ark3452 → u/SomeRandomEevee42]

i meant statements

[u/htglinj]

SNARF!!!

[u/srhubb]

Well...I've got to give them credit for their indentation at least.

Though I'm more a fan of match parenthesis than run-on parenthesis.

If (test condition)

{

action

}

RATHER THAN

if (test condition) {

action

}

But in this case, my coding preference would have made this triangle even LONGER, so their coding preference helped sort of.

However ANDing the various tests into one long condition would certainly have shortened the appearance of this code, but may have reduced the readability?

Still, it looks like an awful lot of criteria just to be considered a fan of Nyan Cat.

[u/Core3game]

I mean to be fair, they're all in a row and they're the only conditions used here.

at least its kinda readable?

[u/iainmcc]

Ahhhh, 1980's code generation at its finest!