Re: [RFC] Attributes v2

> On Mar 9, 2020, at 9:36 PM, Matthew Brown <matthewmatthew@gmail.com> wrote: > > Saying "the syntax makes my eyes bleed" is slightly useless feedback. That was just a header. There was elaboration right below it: "I find angle brackets extremely hard to read and fear — having trained many newbies in programming — that it will cause newbies who see PHP to think it is too complex for them to consider learning." And there was a proposed alternative. > You could say "it's hard to scan", but I don't even think that's true > – prepending everything << makes it easy to pick out attributes in plain text at a glance, Not for me. Seeing the word "attributes" is far easier for me than seeing "<<" and ">>." I do of course understand YMMV. > Additionally this syntax has effectively been battle-tested at scale already in PHP-like > codebases – thousands of engineers at Facebook and Slack have used it over the last few years, and > been productive with it. Yeah, developers who have been vetted by two very successful tech companies. Something tells me neither of them hire moderately-to-lower skilled developers who work in the trenches at many non high-flying tech companies, nor do they hire newbies who are trying to decide if they should learn PHP, or learn Javascript/Typescript instead (for example.) Just registering my objection to the syntax and proposing a readable alternative. I would be highly surprised if there were not many others in userland who would feel the same. But of course I unfortunately have no way of validating that belief. -Mike