Types Of Types

You know what's wild? Someone out there is looking at raw assembly with add , str , imd , and register manipulation and genuinely thinking "yeah, this is totally readable." Meanwhile the rest of us are squinting at it like it's ancient hieroglyphics written by a caffeinated robot. Assembly is what you write when you want job security through obscurity. Sure, it's "perfectly readable" if you've spent the last decade living in a cave with only CPU instruction manuals for company. For everyone else, it's just a beautiful reminder that high-level languages exist for a reason—so we don't have to manually juggle registers like we're performing circus acts. The delusion is real. Every assembly programmer thinks they're writing poetry while the rest of the team needs a PhD just to understand what jmp_eq user_input_end is doing at 3 AM during an incident.

Ah, C++ error messages - where the compiler turns into a cryptic pawn shop owner saying "Best I can do is confuse you." When you ask where the problem is in your code, C++ hands you a 47-line template instantiation error pointing to a library file you've never touched, with helpful gems like "no known conversion from 'const int' to 'int&&'" in a function called by a function called by a function you wrote. Ten years of experience and I still stare at these errors like I'm trying to decode ancient hieroglyphics written by a caffeinated octopus.

The programming language family drama we never asked for but definitely deserve! Your crush codes in Python (easy, flexible, popular), but her dad is a C++ veteran (strict, powerful, intimidating). Meanwhile, her brother's over there with Java (corporate, verbose), and her crush is into Rust (modern, safe, hipster-approved). And there's you... coding in Brainfuck, the programming equivalent of communicating exclusively through hieroglyphics and morse code combined. Nothing says "I'm technically brilliant but make questionable life choices" quite like mastering a language made of nothing but plus signs, brackets, and dots. The dating pool in computer science just got exponentially more complicated!

When your antivirus flags a "Hello World" program as malware. That moment when Visual Studio thinks your perfectly innocent C++ code is actually a sophisticated cyber attack. The compiler's paranoia level is over 9000! Meanwhile, you're just sitting there like a misunderstood genius whose revolutionary "print" statement is clearly too powerful for this world. Security systems trembling before the might of your semicolons.

OMG THE HORROR! You mean to tell me that after years of learning fancy loops like while, for, do, and forEach, it was all just disguised goto statements the whole time?! 😱 The BETRAYAL! The DECEPTION! Our entire programming education has been one massive conspiracy theory! Next you'll tell me that object-oriented programming is just spicy procedural code and I will absolutely LOSE IT. My entire coding identity is SHATTERED. *dramatically faints onto keyboard*

C developers clutching their precious malloc() and free() functions like they're the last chocolate chip cookies on earth! 😱 Meanwhile, Rust is over here with its memory safety guarantees, and C devs are LOSING THEIR MINDS! "What do you MEAN I can't cause undefined behavior and segfaults anymore?! How will I express my ARTISTIC FREEDOM through dangling pointers?!" The sheer AUDACITY of Rust forcing developers to write code that doesn't randomly explode in production! THE HORROR!