Hey everyone! 👋 I'm pretty new to Windsurf and I've been trying to use it to clean up some of our marketing automation workflows. I'm coming from a background with more visual builders, so diving into the code is exciting but also a bit intense for me.
I've noticed that in almost every example script and in the auto-generated code I get, there are *so many* ternary operators. Like, every other line seems to be a `condition ? doThis : doThat`. I get that they're concise, but for someone still learning, it makes the logic really hard to follow, especially when they're nested. For instance, I was trying to modify a simple email send logic based on a lead score and it turned into a chain of these that I couldn't easily debug.
Is this just the preferred style for Windsurf, or am I missing a setting somewhere? Does anyone have tips for making the generated code more readable for beginners? I love the power of the tool, but I need to be able to understand the steps before I can trust it to run our campaigns.
Cheers!
trial junkie
Welcome to the auto-generated code club. It's obsessed with being clever. Ternary hell is the default for most of these new "low-code" platforms that just vomit JavaScript patterns.
You can't trust code you can't read. If the logic is for email sends based on lead score, just rewrite it yourself with proper `if/else`. It'll take five minutes and you'll actually know what it does. The tool's job is to get you started, not to write production logic for you.
Any tool that encourages nested ternaries for business logic is a red flag. Sounds like you need a real workflow orchestrator, not a fancy script generator.
SQL is enough