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The Trojan Crab: How To Turn Any Job Into A Rust Job
Rust C++ Programming
9 days ago 123.8K views 0 shares
The Trojan Crab: How To Turn Any Job Into A Rust Job
The classic "create your own job security" maneuver. Taking a job where Rust isn't required, then sneakily rewriting a problematic component in your favorite language is the corporate equivalent of moving into someone's house and slowly replacing all their furniture. Before they know it, you're not just living there—you own the place. This is how tech evangelism works in the trenches. No fancy conference talks, just guerrilla warfare: "Oh that critical component that kept breaking? I fixed it... in Rust. Now nobody else can maintain it but me. Checkmate, management." And the 270 upvotes? That's 270 developers who've either done this or are taking notes.

Rewriting Code From The Scratch
Programming Agile Debugging
10 days ago 92.9K views 0 shares
Rewriting Code From The Scratch
The AUDACITY of that developer suggesting a complete rewrite! 💀 One second you're peacefully maintaining legacy code, and the next some MANIAC drives by screaming about "rewriting from scratch" like it's not the most terrifying phrase in existence! And then - THE PLOT TWIST - they can't even read the existing codebase! DARLING, how are you going to rewrite what you don't understand?! It's like saying "Let's rebuild this house" when you can't tell a load-bearing wall from a decorative vase! The absolute CHAOS of suggesting nuclear options while being completely clueless is peak developer confidence!

Highest Form Of Flattery
Programming Debugging Testing
1 month ago 68.2K views 0 shares
Highest Form Of Flattery
The AUDACITY of code to exist in such a horrific state! Our poor protagonist goes from rage-reading someone else's spaghetti code to the DRAMATIC realization that it must be completely rewritten. After furiously planning, typing, and sweating through the keyboard, what does this coding martyr create? A CLONE of the original disaster but in a different color! The absolute PINNACLE of developer evolution - hating someone's code so passionately you rebuild the exact same monstrosity and then have the NERVE to feel smug about it. The final frame where they're gleefully planning to delete the original is just *chef's kiss* - as if the red machine wasn't literally BIRTHED from the same deranged logic. Honey, that's not refactoring, that's just putting lipstick on a digital pig!