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Snap Back To Reality
C++ AWS Programming Debugging Cloud
5 hours ago 83.7K views 0 shares
Snap Back To Reality
Nothing kills a developer's zen state faster than a senior engineer appearing with "real work" to do. Junior dev is vibing with his aesthetic setup, probably writing some clean React components, feeling like a 10x engineer. Then reality hits: a legacy C++ module with potential memory leaks that needs manual debugging—no fancy AI tools, no Stack Overflow copy-paste, just raw pointer arithmetic and segfaults. The best part? Senior takes a 2-hour tea break while junior stares at undefined behavior for 6 hours. That's not mentorship, that's hazing with extra steps. Also, the username "@forgot_to_kill_ec2" is chef's kiss—nothing says "us-east-1 Survivor" quite like accidentally leaving AWS instances running and watching your bill go from $50 to $5000. From lo-fi beats to low-level nightmares in one conversation. The flow state didn't just die—it got deallocated without a proper destructor call.

Sure Bro
C++ Algorithms Javascript Programming Python
3 days ago 304.5K views 0 shares
Sure Bro
C++ devs catching strays here. The tweet claims C++ is "easy mode" because the compiler optimizes your garbage code into something performant. Then it drops the hot take that *real* programming mastery is shown by writing efficient code in Python or JavaScript—languages where you can't hide behind compiler optimizations. The irony is palpable. C++ is notorious for being one of the most unforgiving languages out there—manual memory management, undefined behavior lurking around every corner, and template errors that look like Lovecraftian nightmares. Meanwhile, Python and JavaScript are interpreted languages where you can literally concatenate strings in a loop a million times and watch your performance tank because there's no compiler to save you from yourself. It's like saying "driving a manual transmission car is easy mode, but driving an automatic requires true skill because you have to be efficient with the gas pedal." The mental gymnastics are Olympic-level.

When Even The Father Of C Plus Plus Is Not Sure Anymore
AI C++ Algorithms Programming
4 days ago 254.2K views 1 shares
When Even The Father Of C Plus Plus Is Not Sure Anymore
The evolution of developer laziness in one picture. 2020 devs manually checking every single number like they're counting on their fingers, while 2026 devs just outsource basic math to AI because why bother remembering if numbers are odd or even? The best part? Even Bjarne Stroustrup himself—the literal creator of C++—looked at this and went "Tell me: this is a joke?" Imagine building an entire programming language only to watch future developers ask ChatGPT whether 5 is odd. The man gave us templates, RAII, and the STL, and we repaid him by forgetting modulo operators exist. To be fair, the 2026 approach probably has better error handling than the 2020 version. At least until OpenAI decides that 7 is "spiritually even" or something.

He Loves Cpp So Much
C++ Programming
6 days ago 209.3K views 0 shares
He Loves Cpp So Much
The compound interest of technical debt, but make it a life sentence. Missing one day of C++ practice apparently requires two hours of penance the next day, which means by tomorrow this person will be coding for three *years* straight. At this rate, they'll be debugging memory leaks in their sleep by 2027 and explaining pointer arithmetic to their grandchildren by 2030. The math checks out perfectly for someone who clearly enjoys suffering.

Wait A Minute
Programming Webdev C++ Python Java
6 days ago 223.0K views 0 shares
Wait A Minute
So Markdown just casually went from "barely registering on the chart" to "I'm about to end Python's whole career" in like 2 years? Someone's clearly been feeding their README files steroids. The graph shows Markdown's popularity shooting up at a near-vertical angle around 2022, threatening to overtake every actual programming language on the chart. Plot twist: Markdown isn't even a programming language. It's a markup language. That's like saying Microsoft Word is competing with C++ because people write documentation in it. But hey, according to PYPL (PopularitY of Programming Language), apparently writing **bold text** and # headers now qualifies you as a software engineer. The real question: Did someone accidentally include every GitHub README, Stack Overflow post, and Discord message in their dataset? Because that's the only way this makes sense. Next year's chart will probably show HTML as the "hottest new programming language" with SQL making a surprise comeback as "the future of coding."

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Easy Explanation Of Pointers
C++ Programming
7 days ago 171.3K views 0 shares
Easy Explanation Of Pointers
So you start with a regular int and everyone's cool. Then you add one asterisk to make it int* and people get a little excited but still following along. Add another asterisk for int** and now we're pointing to a pointer and things are getting spicy. But void* ? That's where your soul leaves your body. It's a pointer to... something. Could be anything. Could be nothing. The compiler has given up on type safety and so have you. It's the programming equivalent of "trust me bro" and the reason why C programmers have that thousand-yard stare. Fun fact: void* is basically how malloc tells you "here's some memory, figure it out yourself" which is both terrifying and liberating.

Programming Or Hate Myself
C++ Programming Debugging
14 days ago 155.5K views 0 shares
Programming Or Hate Myself
The classic programmer's dilemma: feeling miserable, then discovering that C++ is somehow an even more effective form of self-loathing. It's like choosing between regular depression and depression with manual memory management, segmentation faults, and template error messages that span 47 lines. At least regular sadness doesn't require you to understand the Rule of Five or why your destructor just caused a core dump. C++ takes "hating yourself" and adds undefined behavior as a feature, not a bug.

Snap Back To Reality
C++ AI AWS Programming Debugging
14 days ago 227.5K views 0 shares
Snap Back To Reality
Nothing ruins a developer's flow state faster than a senior dev gatekeeping what "real engineering" looks like. Junior was vibing with his lo-fi beats and cute VS Code theme, probably knocking out features left and right. Then comes the senior with a memory leak in some ancient C++ module nobody's touched since the Bush administration, demanding manual tracing without AI tools because apparently suffering builds character. Six hours of staring at a black screen while senior takes a 2-hour tea break? That's not mentorship, that's hazing. The username "@forgot_to_kill_ec2" is just *chef's kiss* – nothing says "us-east-1 Survivor" quite like forgetting to terminate instances and watching your AWS bill skyrocket. Welcome to the real world indeed, where your zen coding session gets replaced by pointer arithmetic nightmares and existential dread.

Dr Blame The Dev
Rust Golang C++ Typescript Javascript
26 days ago 381.4K views 0 shares
Dr Blame The Dev
Someone wrote a manifesto about how using C, C++, Python, or vanilla JavaScript in production is basically corporate negligence, advocating for Rust, Go, and TypeScript instead. The reply? "Nonsense. If your code has reached the point of unmaintainable complexity, then blame the author, not the language." Classic developer blame game. The first person is basically saying "your tools are bad and you should feel bad," while the second person fires back with "skill issue, not language issue." Both are technically correct, which makes this argument eternal. The reality? Yeah, modern languages with better type systems and memory safety do prevent entire classes of bugs. But also yeah, a terrible developer can write unmaintainable garbage in any language, including Rust. You can't memory-safety your way out of 10,000-line functions and zero documentation. The real takeaway: if you're shipping production code in 2025 without considering memory safety and type guarantees, you're making a choice. Just make sure it's an informed one, not a "we've always done it this way" one.

Tech Public Service Announcement
AI Rust Security C++ Microsoft
28 days ago 389.7K views 0 shares
Tech Public Service Announcement
So Microsoft wants to eliminate C and C++ by 2030 using AI to rewrite their entire codebase. Because nothing says "brilliant strategy" like letting algorithms rewrite millions of lines of battle-tested code that's been running critical systems for decades. The hubris is *chef's kiss*. They're so busy flexing their AI muscles that they forgot to ask the most important question: just because you CAN automate the rewriting of foundational infrastructure doesn't mean you SHOULD. What could possibly go wrong with AI touching code that powers Windows, Office, and Azure? It's not like memory safety bugs are subtle or anything. The Jeff Goldblum meme from Jurassic Park is the perfect response here. They were so preoccupied with whether they could use AI to eliminate C/C++, they didn't stop to think if they should. Because replacing decades of institutional knowledge and battle-hardened code with AI-generated Rust (presumably) is definitely going to go smoothly. No edge cases, no undefined behavior gotchas, just pure algorithmic magic. Sure.

Replace Cpp With Ai
AI C++ Algorithms Microsoft Backend
1 month ago 234.7K views 0 shares
Replace Cpp With Ai
Microsoft's ambitious plan to nuke every line of C/C++ from their codebase by 2030 using AI is giving major "we'll rewrite it in Rust next quarter" vibes, except with a budget that could buy a small country. The highlighted goals are absolutely wild: eliminate decades of battle-tested code and somehow have 1 engineer rewrite 1 million lines in 1 month. Because nothing says "stable production environment" like AI-generated code at scale, right? The real kicker here is the confidence level. They're building "powerful infrastructure" and "scalable graphs" to accomplish what they themselves call a "previously unimaginable task." Translation: they're throwing AI at a problem that probably doesn't need solving, but hey, it's 2024 and if you're not using AI for everything, are you even a tech company? Can't wait to see the bug reports when AI decides to "optimize" some critical kernel code.

Partying Is Tough For Me
C++ Programming
1 month ago 189.7K views 0 shares
Partying Is Tough For Me
Standing awkwardly at a party while everyone's dancing and having fun, but your brain is stuck thinking about pointer-to-pointer concepts from your C++ project. You know, the classic double pointer (**ptr) that points to another pointer that points to the actual data? Yeah, try explaining THAT to someone who thinks "debugging" means removing actual insects. The real tragedy here is that you're genuinely excited about this topic and nobody at the party cares that you just figured out how to dynamically allocate a 2D array. They're out here living their best lives while you're mentally drawing memory diagrams. This is what happens when you spend too much time in low-level languages—you become fluent in memory addresses but lose the ability to small talk. Fun fact: Pointer-to-pointer is actually useful for things like modifying pointer values in functions or creating dynamic multidimensional arrays. But that conversation starter has a 100% success rate at clearing the room.