What Is Syntactic Sugar?

Have you ever been in the middle of a coding project and thought, "When will this be over?" If so, you may be suffering from "syntactic sugar" fatigue. Syntactic sugar is a syntax change in computer programming that is easier for humans to code. There also are such a lot of distinctive styles of syntactic sugar, and synonyms include "syntactic saccharine" and even "candygrammar," that is regularly used to explain immoderate or unhelpful "syntactic sugar" changes. For example, if you were writing code and wanted to add two numbers, you might use the plus sign (+). It is called infix notation—you can write the operation before or after its operands. Infix notation has been around since the dawn of time (or at least since someone invented algebra), so it's not new by any stretch of the imagination. However, there are many other ways to write an addition operation besides just using +: you could say 2+3 or 2 + 3 or even just "2" + "3". These are good ways to write an addition operation in JavaScript because it uses postfix notation instead of infix notation. Instead of putting + in between 2 and 3 as we would do "+", we put both numbers so that it looks like "(2)+3". It makes your code. Syntactic sugar is also often used as a shorthand for tasks that typically take many more characters than just one or two letters. It can be helpful for both unskilled programmers and skilled programmers. For example, if you want to make X equal to 1, you could write "X = 1" or "make X equal to one". Both options are syntactically correct and do what they say they will do – but one takes up more characters than the other.