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There Are Two Kinds Of Programmers

There Are Two Kinds Of Programmers
The eternal civil war of code formatting! On the red side: the chaotic rebel who puts opening braces on the same line as the function declaration. On the blue side: the structured purist who insists the opening brace deserves its own dedicated line. This syntactical holy war has crashed more team meetings than null pointer exceptions. The tabs vs. spaces debate might have siblings now, but this brace placement battle has been dividing dev teams since K&R style faced off against Allman style in the coding thunderdome. Your IDE's auto-formatter is the only thing preventing actual bloodshed at this point.

Google Takes Sides In The Text Editor Holy Wars

Google Takes Sides In The Text Editor Holy Wars
When you search for "vi" and Google immediately suggests "Did you mean: emacs" - that's not a search engine, that's a declaration of war in the text editor holy wars. Google just picked a side in the oldest developer rivalry known to mankind. Next they'll be suggesting "Did you mean: spaces" when you search for tabs. The audacity!

When They Ask Why I Hate Autoformatters

When They Ask Why I Hate Autoformatters
Ah, the age-old tabs vs. spaces holy war has claimed another victim! Nothing turns a mild-mannered developer into a raging lunatic faster than someone running an autoformatter that converts their carefully crafted tab indentation into spaces (or vice versa). It's like watching someone rearrange your kitchen while insisting they're "helping." Sure, the code might work exactly the same afterward, but now it feels wrong on a spiritual level. And let's be honest - you'd rather rewrite the entire project from scratch than adapt to someone else's indentation style. The true mark of a senior developer isn't their algorithm knowledge or architecture skills—it's the intensity with which they'll defend their whitespace preferences to the death.

Stop

Stop
OH MY GOSH! The eternal holy war of code formatting styles! 😂 The meme brilliantly divides coding styles into "normal" vs "mental disorders" and I'm dying because we've ALL had that one coworker who uses Haskell-style semicolons or—heaven forbid—Lisp style with the closing brace on the same line! The best part? Every programmer is CONVINCED their style is the only sane one! Meanwhile, the rest of us are just trying to figure out why our code reviewer is having an absolute meltdown over bracket placement. Formatting wars have literally ended friendships! And don't even get me started on tabs vs spaces...