JavaScript: The Silent Treatment Champion

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Content lbaum oscherler Oct 30 JavaScript makes me want to flip the table and say "Fuck this shit", but I can never be sure what "this" refers to. RETWEETS 783 LIKES 662

The calm software engineer enjoying his lunch while chaos erupts in the background is the most accurate depiction of job security I've ever seen. While Jira (blue diamond), XState (X logo), Docker (whale), and Webpack (green logo) battle it out in a JavaScript framework death match, our protagonist knows he's the only one who understands the legacy codebase with 15 years of technical debt. The frameworks come and go, but the engineer who wrote that undocumented spaghetti code that somehow keeps the entire company afloat? Absolutely irreplaceable.

OMG, the HOLY WAR of programming languages! 💅 Two kingdoms separated by nothing but PURE DELUSION! On the left, developers praising their "blessed" language with its "glorious" syntax like they're worshipping at some divine altar. Meanwhile, they look across the river at those SAVAGES using different indentation rules like they're absolute MONSTERS who probably don't wash their hands after using the bathroom! 🏰 The DRAMA of it all! Your "heroic debugging efforts" are my "brutish quick fixes" - honey, we're ALL just frantically Googling Stack Overflow at 2AM while crying into our energy drinks! The absolute AUDACITY of programmers to act like their chosen language is the One True Religion when we're all just trying to make computers do the thing! PERIODT! ✨

The beautiful irony of throwing an AssertionError with the message "Unreachable code reached" is just *chef's kiss*. It's the programming equivalent of installing a security camera inside a black hole. You're basically telling the compiler "this code will never execute" and then writing an error message for when it does execute. The cosmic paradox of defensive programming at its finest! This is the senior developer's version of "trust no one, not even yourself." They've been burned too many times by "impossible" edge cases showing up in production at 3 AM.

The classic dad-meets-boyfriend scenario gets a programming twist. When asked what he uses "on the client," this smooth operator decides to flex with "I'm a vibe coder, and my clients don't code" – possibly the worst answer in the history of developer pickup lines. It's that special blend of buzzword nonsense and zero technical substance that makes every senior developer's soul leave their body. The only appropriate response? "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE." And honestly, fair enough. Anyone who unironically calls themselves a "vibe coder" deserves to be escorted off the premises immediately.