Kids Today Will Never Know What Its Like To Get Apapercut While Debugging

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Thinking about learning JavaScript: PANIK . Seeing the $29.217 yearly salary: KALM . Discovering that JavaScript thinks 0 > null is false, but 0 >= null is true: EXTREME PANIK . JavaScript's type coercion is like that friend who makes up rules during board games. "No, see, zero is equal to null when it's convenient, but also completely different when it's not. Why? Because I said so."

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Content Your first podcast will be awful Your first video will be awful Your first article will be awful Your first art will be awful Your first photo will be awful Your first game will be awful But your first code will be perfect. Zero bugs and a very clean code. It will be "Hello World" Me: Print ("Hellow World!") Traceback (most recent call last): File "pyshell0", line 1, in module Print ("Hellow World!") NameError: name 'Print' is not defined

Oh the duality of debugging! 🔍 When we spot bugs in someone else's code, we're like master detectives gently pointing out their flaws with surgical precision. But when it's OUR OWN code? Suddenly we transform into rage-filled monsters questioning our entire existence! Every developer has experienced this Jekyll and Hyde transformation - calm and collected for others, absolute chaos for ourselves. The self-roast is REAL in this profession! Nothing humbles you faster than your own buggy code staring back at you like "remember when you thought you were smart?" 😂

The C++ Olympic gold medalist celebrates victory in the first 5 panels, only to get absolutely destroyed by Rust in the final frame. Classic story of our industry - spend decades mastering pointer arithmetic and manual memory management, then some new language comes along with a borrow checker and suddenly you're obsolete. C++17 promised better memory safety features, but let's be honest - it's like putting a band-aid on a chainsaw wound. Meanwhile Rust sits on the podium smugly preventing segfaults at compile time while every other garbage-collected language watches from second place. Ten years of debugging dangling pointers and suddenly I'm supposed to learn ownership semantics? Fine, I'll update my resume.