Code quality Memes

Julia Turc just opened Pandora's box by asking for a name for "not-vibe-coding" and the dev community delivered. The suggestions range from "boomer coding" (when you actually read documentation), "chewgy coding" (painfully outdated but somehow still works), "trad coding" (traditional, no frameworks, just suffering), to the absolute winner: "Coding with capital C" - you know, the kind where you actually plan things out, write tests, and don't just YOLO your way through production. But Gabor Varadi swoops in with the nuclear option: just call it "software engineering" in quotes. The air quotes do all the heavy lifting here - implying that what we call "vibe coding" is... well... not exactly engineering. It's the programming equivalent of "I'm not like other coders, I actually care about architecture and maintainability." The beautiful irony? Most of us toggle between vibe coding at 2 AM ("this will definitely work") and capital-C Coding during code reviews ("who wrote this garbage? Oh wait, that was me").

Dart's error handling is... let's say "flexible." While most languages force you to throw proper Exception objects, Dart just shrugs and lets you throw literally anything—strings, numbers, your lunch order, whatever. The documentation casually mentions "you can also throw arbitrary objects" like it's a totally normal feature and not an invitation to chaos. The example throw 'Out of llamas!'; is peak Dart energy—throwing a string error message like we're back in the wild west of programming. Meanwhile, Dart developers are out here yeeting random objects into the error stream with zero regard for type safety or sanity. Need to throw an int? Sure. A Map? Why not. A function? Go for it. The catch blocks must be having existential crises trying to figure out what they're catching. It's the programming equivalent of "throw whatever sticks to the wall" except the wall is your production error handler and nothing sticks properly.

You know that moment when your entire codebase is held together by duct tape, prayers, and Stack Overflow snippets? Yeah, that's the sweet spot where everything becomes technical debt. Once you reach that level of enlightenment, the concept of "good code" becomes meaningless. Can't have clean architecture if the whole thing is a dumpster fire. It's like achieving nirvana, but instead of peace, you get runtime errors and a Jira backlog that makes you question your career choices.