Yesterday I Discovered The Mutable Keyword

Oh the MORAL DILEMMA of every programmer! 😂 The spouse thinks Googling solutions is "cheating" while every developer knows it's just standard operating procedure ! That moment of panic when a non-tech person confesses to "cheating" in programming and you're torn between explaining that Stack Overflow is basically our collective brain or letting them feel like a coding rebel. Spoiler alert: we ALL "cheat" - it's called efficient problem-solving! The real sin would be retyping code from scratch when perfectly good solutions are just a search away!

The excitement-to-disappointment pipeline is real. You spend hours hunting for that perfect C++ feature to solve your problem, only to discover it's coming in C++26... which is years away. It's like finding out the solution to your current deadline is scheduled to arrive sometime after your retirement. The crushing realization that you'll have to implement your own janky workaround (again) instead of using that shiny new linear algebra library. Welcome to C++ development, where the future is always bright but perpetually out of reach.

The programming language family portrait nobody asked for but everyone needed! Papa C sits proudly with his offspring, each representing their true nature in the coding ecosystem. C# is the well-behaved child still following Dad's rules. JavaScript is the rebellious teenager with that "I'll do things MY way" hairstyle. Java looks suspiciously like the neighbor who's always borrowing sugar. PHP is that kid who somehow functions despite all odds. Objective C is just trying to stay relevant in the corner. And Lisp? Lisp is the cat because nobody understands what it's saying but it's somehow essential to the household. The family that compiles together, stays together... except JavaScript, who's definitely moving out to become a rockstar.

Looking at this dependency graph is like watching a murder mystery where every header file is both a victim and a suspect. The C++ include nightmare on full display here—a tangled web that would make even the most hardened senior dev reach for the whiskey drawer. Circular dependencies, cascading includes, and enough arrows to start a small archery business. And somewhere in this mess, a junior dev is about to add another header file and bring the whole 45-minute compile time to its knees. Remember kids, this is why we have forward declarations and precompiled headers. But who am I kidding? We'll all be debugging this spaghetti next sprint anyway.

Oh. My. GOD. This absolute MADMAN is out here coding UI in pure C while the rest of us are frantically learning our 47th JavaScript framework! 💅 Look at this CHAOS WIZARD manually drawing rectangles and buttons with raw C code like it's 1985! Meanwhile React developers are having existential crises when their npm packages are 3 minutes out of date. The AUDACITY of this programmer to declare "not getting replaced by AI" while doing something so unnecessarily complicated that even AI would look at it and say "no thanks, I'll stick to generating cat pictures." The video title says it all - this isn't about efficiency, it's about SPITE. Pure, beautiful, petty programmer spite. And with nearly half a million views, apparently spite sells!

Claiming to know C++ is like claiming you can bend the Matrix. Sure, Neo thought he was special until Morpheus challenged him to prove it. Then reality hits harder than a segmentation fault, and suddenly your program's memory is sprawled out on the dojo floor like a defeated rookie. The segmentation fault (core dumped) error is basically C++'s way of saying "You're not The One, you're just another programmer who forgot to check their pointers." Your confidence in memory management just got kung-fu kicked into oblivion.