alt Hacker NewsEven if we ignore solutions other languages have come up with, it's even worse that they landed on // for the syntax given that it's apparently used the same way for real comments.
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IshKebab • last Sunday at 6:19 PM
Yeah I agree \\ is not the best choice visually (and because it looks quite similar to //
I would have probably gone with ` or something.
n42 • last Sunday at 5:47 PM
> it's even worse that they landed on // for the syntax
.. it is using \\
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But those are two different slashes? \\ for strings and // for comments?