Coding vs Debugging

Behold! The most accurate depiction of development reality ever drawn by human hands! On the left, your code change workflow - majestic, detailed, robust like a thoroughbred horse ready for battle. And then there's your database change workflow - a pathetic stick figure abomination that looks like it was drawn by a caffeinated toddler with a crayon. We spend YEARS perfecting our code deployment pipelines with tests, CI/CD, and version control while our database migrations are basically "run this SQL and pray to the data gods it doesn't destroy production." The AUDACITY of us calling ourselves professionals while treating our precious data like this! 💀

This meme is the perfect cheat sheet for how different programming languages solve problems—and boy, is it accurate! C keeps it simple with a direct approach. Python, being Python, just imports a solver because why reinvent the wheel? Linux users chain together commands like they're assembling IKEA furniture with a Swiss Army knife. Then there's PHP—stuck at "Problem" with no solution in sight. Classic PHP. C++ takes the cake though—creating a new problem with each solution. And C#? Three pricing tiers for essentially the same solution because Microsoft gonna Microsoft. Rust is so obsessed with safety it needs to remind you the solution is rust-approved. And JavaScript? That escalated quickly—one problem fractures into an exponential nightmare of dependency hell. Choose your fighter wisely, folks. Your sanity depends on it.

Content THIS IS GIT. IT TRACKS COLLABORATIVE WORK ON PROJECTS THROUGH A BEAUTIFUL DISTRIBUTED GRAPH THEORY TREE MODEL. COOL. HOU DO WE USE IT? NO IDEA. JUST MEMORIZE THESE SHELL COMMANDS AND TYPE THEM TO SYNC UP. IF YOU GET ERRORS, SAVE YOUR WORK ELSEWHERE, DELETE THE PROJECT, AND DOWNLOAD A FRESH COPY.

Content Me When I Copy The Exact Same Code From Tutorial And It Doesn't Work

Content chrisk5000 chrisk5000 Almost made fun of an electrician today like "is it an electrician's guild rule that you have to perform 5 minutes of ritual complaining about What Was The Previous Electrician Thinking before you're allowed to fix anything?" but then I remembered I'm a software engineer 6:25 PM Nov 15, 2018 Twitter Web Client 586 Retweets 2.4K Likes

Content Catalin Pit catalinmpit Let me break it for you. Coding is: - 1 actually coding -40 debugging - 15 coffee breaks - 30 googling errors - 9 staring with your colleagues at the screen - 5 trying copypasted solutions from Stack Overflow