The Forgotten Performance King

The fastest way to summon a C++ developer to explain why you're wrong? Tweet "I love C++." Apparently, it takes exactly 34 minutes of trying to use the language before the Stockholm syndrome wears off and reality sets in. That tweet aged like milk left in a memory leak. The duality of every C++ programmer: loving it publicly while privately wondering why they chose a language where even printing "Hello World" requires sacrificing your firstborn to the template gods.

So this is how data structures reproduce in the wild. A mystruct gets embedded inside a pregnantstruct , complete with a bool yeah; confirmation. Congratulations, it's a nested object! The compiler will be sending cigars. Just wait until it inherits all those methods—they grow up so fast.

When someone claims they "use C++ in JavaScript," you expect some horrifying abomination of code. But then they show a basic for loop with C++ style increment (c++) and suddenly everyone's laughing because it's the most innocent dad joke in programming history. It's like telling people you know kung fu and then just waving your arms around making "whoosh" sounds. The audacity of this pun deserves both a standing ovation and immediate revocation of coding privileges.

The eternal battle between developer and compiler continues! Just when you think you've found the issue and start debugging, the compiler pulls a Jedi mind trick on you. It's like the compiler knows you're getting close to a solution and decides "nope, not today!" That moment when your breakpoints hit, you're stepping through code line by line, and suddenly—nothing. No helpful error messages, no stack traces, just silence. The compiler has chosen violence today. It's basically gaslighting you into thinking the bug doesn't even exist!

The bravado of developers who claim they "fear no API" only to cower in terror at the sight of Vulkan is just *chef's kiss*. For the uninitiated, Vulkan is the low-level graphics API that makes even seasoned graphics programmers wake up in cold sweats. It's like saying "I'm great at assembling IKEA furniture" and then being handed the blueprints to build the actual IKEA store from scratch. The documentation alone is thicker than a computer science textbook, and the error messages might as well be written in ancient Sumerian. Meanwhile, OpenGL (referenced in the title) is like the friendly neighborhood graphics API that suddenly looks like a cuddly kitten in comparison.

C++ developers crushing under the weight of compile-time errors while JavaScript developers happily building staircases with runtime disasters that'll explode in production. One breaks your build, the other breaks your soul at 2AM when customers call. The difference? C++ punishes you immediately; JavaScript waits until you've deployed to 10,000 users. Choose your poison.