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What The Entry Point
Programming Rust C++ Python
15 days ago 96.3K views 0 shares
What The Entry Point
The gradual descent into programming madness: First panel: Rust's clean, explicit entry point. Simple. Elegant. Second panel: C/C++'s classic int main(). Familiar territory. Third panel: Python's cryptic "__name__ == '__main__'" check that makes you question your life choices. Fourth panel: The existential crisis that follows when you realize you've been staring at different entry point syntaxes for so long that you've forgotten what sunlight feels like. The four horsemen of "how the hell do I start this program again?"

Python Needs An Actual Default Function
Python Rust C++ Programming
18 days ago 79.4K views 0 shares
Python Needs An Actual Default Function
The first two panels show our protagonist happily accepting normal entry point functions in Rust and C/C++. "Yeah, that makes sense!" she cheerfully exclaims. Then panel three hits with Python's bizarre if __name__ == '__main__': pattern - the cursed incantation every Python dev has blindly copy-pasted a thousand times without questioning why we need this arcane check just to run a damn script. And that final panel? Pure existential horror. Seven years into my career and I still type this abomination with muscle memory while silently wondering who hurt the Python designers.

When C Has An Identity Crisis
C++ Programming
1 month ago 80.0K views 0 shares
When C Has An Identity Crisis
Just when you thought C couldn't get more intimidating, the Germans had to give it their efficiency treatment. What you're looking at is basically regular C code wearing lederhosen and drinking a beer. Ganz Haupt() is just main() with a superiority complex, druckef() is printf() after taking German lessons, and zurück 0 is return 0 but with an umlaut attitude. The real horror isn't the syntax—it's imagining the compiler errors in German. They probably come with a side of existential dread and philosophical critique of your coding style.