What is the ugliest programming syntax?

So far - I think it’s PHP mixed with tailwind for CSS.

u think php has ugly syntax ? 😂 man its too simple. U want ugly syntax look at c, or those reference pointer riddled languages.

Rust has the turbofish: item.method::<T>() but thankfully that's only needed in cases where type inference fails.

Also the new proposal for await syntax: "postfix dot await" (future.await) which looks like a field access.

@tokumei Am I the only one that thinks that turbo fish syntax looks good?

@AymanH i guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder since i think C is the definition of a beautiful lang. Simple and minimalist

@irene agree

I think that the syntax of:

Rust, Perl, Go, Swift and Kotlin is are ugly AF.

Go surprises me, it is very minimal but the weird indents that i see in some source code is ugly. Only in some parts tho.

@irene not only thar, but lets say that you get pass that(which I am sure you can) just to find out that you still need to go through other people's code.

@irene i meant it as "you could learn it if you wanted" but ok i guess

HTML

@freeme You must be looking at some poorly written markup. I think that html is one of the cleanest! : ) - I guess if there a lot of attributes it can get ugly.

@RantSomeWhere i felt that way when I started with it. Now i don't even see the () anymore

@freeme Circling back to this 156 days later... haha --- How would you write HTML differently? I forced my 70-year-old mom to think this through... (knows nothing about programming) - and she basically re-invented markdown... haha - but - you wouldn't want to use markdown for real web-framework templating - because you need clearer attributes. Any thoughts on that?