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There's Definitely Should Be An Easier Way For This

2 days ago 121.9M views 0 shares

Someone discovered the hard way that generics exist for a reason. We're witnessing a developer manually calling GetFirst<T>() for TWENTY-FOUR different types and then passing each one to Unsafe.Add() individually. Like... bestie, have you heard of a loop? An array? A collection? Literally ANY data structure that doesn't require you to copy-paste the same line 24 times? This is what happens when you're so deep in the trenches that you forget basic programming principles. The sheer audacity of typing t0FirstElement , t1FirstElement , t2FirstElement ... all the way to t24FirstElement without once thinking "hmm, maybe I'm doing something wrong here" is truly breathtaking. Your keyboard is filing for workers' compensation as we speak. Fun fact: This code probably took longer to write than it would've taken to learn about iterating through a collection of types. But hey, at least it's... consistent? 💀

Production Code At Two In The Morning

Csharp Programming Debugging

2 months ago 1.9M views 0 shares

Someone really said "type safety is for cowards" and went absolutely feral with the casting. They're casting (T)(object)value like they're performing dark magic rituals in the dead of night. Why cast to object first? Why not just cast directly to T? Because chaos, that's why. It's like taking off your seatbelt before putting on a different seatbelt. The compiler is screaming, the runtime is crying, and whoever wrote this was probably running on pure caffeine and desperation. And then—THEN—they return (T)(object)v at the end, doing the EXACT same cursed double-cast again. This is what happens when you're too tired to remember that generics exist for a reason and you just want the red squiggly lines to go away by any means necessary.

Go Team Got Their Priorities

Golang Programming Backend

3 months ago 34.4M views 0 shares

The Go team really said "let's add generics after 13 years of the language existing" and "sure, interfaces are cool" while completely ghosting proper error handling. Meanwhile, developers are still out here writing if err != nil until their fingers bleed. Every. Single. Function. The skeleton at the bottom of the pool? That's every Go dev who's been waiting for a decent error handling mechanism since 2009. Some say they're still checking for nil errors to this day. The Go team keeps promising improvements but then gets distracted by adding yet another way to format strings or optimize the garbage collector by 0.3 nanoseconds. At least we got generics though... only took them longer than it takes to build an entire JavaScript framework from scratch (which happens about every 2 weeks).

Gophers Prefer Clean Water

Golang Programming Java

3 months ago 17.0M views 0 shares

The Go gopher is just vibing in clean water while everyone around it roasts other developers for their coding sins. Meanwhile, Go developers are sitting pretty because their language literally doesn't have inheritance or base classes—it uses composition and interfaces instead. No base classes to forget, no inheritance hierarchies to mess up, no generics to... oh wait, Go added generics in 1.18. But let's be real, half the Go community still pretends they don't exist and just uses interface{} everywhere like it's 2015. The beauty here is that Go's philosophy of simplicity means you literally can't make some of these OOP mistakes. No classes? No problem. No inheritance? Can't forget what doesn't exist. It's like being immune to a disease because you're missing the receptor it needs to infect you. Go developers get to smugly watch the Java and C# folks argue about abstract factory patterns while they're out here writing if err != nil for the 47th time in the same function.

They'll Understand One Day

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3 months ago 23.8M views 0 shares

Senior devs roasting juniors with the holy trinity of code review sins. "Where's your base class?" "He duplicated code that could have been abstracted!" "I bet he doesn't even know how generics work!" Meanwhile the junior dev is just standing there taking it from all angles like some kind of OOP intervention. The beautiful irony? Give it 6 months and that same junior will be pointing fingers at the next newbie who dares to copy-paste a function instead of making it reusable. The circle of life in software development—everyone gets hazed by inheritance patterns and DRY principles until they become the hazer. Pro tip: If you're getting roasted for all three simultaneously, you've probably written a 500-line god method that does everything. We've all been there. Some of us still are.

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Golang Programming

4 months ago 2.2M views 2 shares

Someone innocently asks about Go generics syntax, and the response is basically "Oh sweetie, that's not generics—those are CANADIAN ABORIGINAL SYLLABICS masquerading as angle brackets because I'm using them as a template system with search-and-replace." The sheer AUDACITY of using Unicode characters from an entire writing system as variable names just to fake generics before Go officially supported them is peak programmer chaos. And the casual "Oh my god" reply? Chef's kiss. This is the kind of galaxy-brain workaround that makes you question everything you thought you knew about programming conventions.

Canadian Go Programming

Golang Programming

4 months ago 1.3M views 0 shares

Someone discovers what looks like generic syntax in Go (a language famously without generics at the time), only to learn the most beautifully cursed truth: those aren't angle brackets—they're characters from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Unicode block that are technically valid in Go identifiers. So instead of actual generics, this developer created a "template" file using these visually identical characters and just does find-and-replace to generate monomorphized code. It's the programming equivalent of "we have generics at home." The real kicker? Go's identifier rules allow these Unicode characters, so from the compiler's perspective, ImmutableTreeList<ElementT> is just one long, perfectly valid identifier name. The reaction "Oh my god" says it all—this is simultaneously genius and an absolute crime against readability. Peak developer ingenuity meets Unicode shenanigans. Before Go 1.18 added actual generics, people were getting creative .

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Anime Gender Type Theory

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9 months ago 649.5K views 0 shares

Someone took their TypeScript generics knowledge and applied it to the most important problem in computer science: categorizing anime characters by gender presentation. Because nothing says "I understand covariance and contravariance" quite like explaining why that cute anime character might be a trap. The progression is beautiful: simple generic Girl, then a Variant that could be Boy OR Girl (Schrödinger's waifu), then a Boy that implements the IGirl interface (the classic "looks like a girl, sounds like a girl, but surprise"), and finally void—because some things transcend mortal understanding. The BitCast at the end is the cherry on top: when type safety fails you, just reinterpret those bits and pray. Your type system can't save you now.

Go Generics

Java Backend

1 year ago 179.3K views 0 shares

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Content kusho.ai Parallelizing Enjarify in Go and Rust (medium.com) 138 submitted 3 months ago by Uncaffeinated 79 comments share save hide give gold report sorted by: best v you are viewing a single comment's thread. view the rest of the comments - - pftbest 7 points 3 months ago can you please explain this go syntax to me? type ImmutableTreeListElementT struct I thought go doesn't have generics. permalink embed save report give gold reply - (Uncaffeinated (S 12 points 3 months ago It doesn't. That's just a "template" file, which I use search and replace in order to generate the three monomorphized go files. If you look closely, those aren't angle brackets, they're characters from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which are allowed in Go identifiers. From Go's perspective, that's just one long identifier. Every day. We stray further from god.

Exit Vim Generic Solution

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2 years ago 144.7K views 0 shares

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The biggest benefit of being a C++ dev

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3 years ago 99.6K views 0 shares

The biggest benefit of being a C++ dev | c++-memes, generics-memes, cs-memes, rust-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content malahhkai 1d Rust does generics a lot better than C. 5 4-26 J Unknownldentifier 1 3 1d If a C dev is ever stranded in the desert, all he has to do is say to the empty sands, "C is pretty okay." A Rust enthusiast will appear immediately to correct him. 4 52

I am becoming very suspicious about the stability of this code

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4 years ago 166.2K views 0 shares

I am becoming very suspicious about the stability of this code | css-memes, code-memes, android-memes, api-memes, generics-memes, gradle-memes, bot-memes, cs-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

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