Meanwhile Rust, where every control flow has a return value

That

return a === b ? true : false

Is bothering me way too much. Just

return a === b

You can have my ternary operator when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

I kind of love the idea of the ternary operator. C is all about being a procedural language, except this is of course a lie, because it does have mathematical expressions.

But then they realized that it’s not just mathematical expressions where being purely procedural is kind of shit, so they wanted to introduce if-else expressions.

But oh no, we can’t have it look like the if-else control flow element. This is where madness functional programming lies. Let’s make it look like a mathematical expression instead, by choosing the ugliest syntax known to man.

But what really makes it a meme is that other languages decided they needed to look like C, so they copied this terrible design and even though JavaScript has almost nothing to do with C anymore, webdevs in particular get to suffer from the unreadable syntax all the more.

TypeScript library devs are shivering in cold sweat right now

Ternary operators are the one thing I really miss from Go.

ternary operator rules though