Meanwhile Rust, where every control flow has a return value

its not my fault return apple == red ? true : false is so cute. :3

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.

# I mean, Crystal does have a ternary operator, too...
bar = case something
      in "aaa" then true
      in "bbb" then false
      end

foo = if bar
        69
      else
        42
      end

;; Or CASE or IF or COND or whatever
(let* ((bar (ecase (something)
              (:aaa t)
              (:bbb nil)))
       (foo (if bar 69 42)))
  )

ternary operator rules though

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