Plugins Memes

OH. MY. GOD. The AUDACITY of these so-called "software engineers" with their RIDICULOUS version numbers that look like someone smashed their face on a keyboard! 🙄 We've spent DECADES perfecting semantic versioning only to discover—PLOT TWIST—nobody actually needs anything beyond v1.0! And when we wanted more features? "Just use plugins!" they said, as if that's not the digital equivalent of duct-taping features to a broken chair! And don't get me STARTED on those update prompts. "Please update to version 37.0.0.69.march2023.jaguar" — WHO NAMES THESE THINGS? A cat walking across a keyboard?! Meanwhile, we're all sitting here like obedient little puppies clicking "Yes, please install updates" while staring at loading screens that tell us ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. 22GB download for what? A slightly different shade of blue in the UI? The betrayal is ASTRONOMICAL!

The eternal VS Code addict's bargaining phase. "Just one more extension and I'll be productive, I swear!" Meanwhile, IntelliJ users watch from their feature-complete fortress, sipping coffee that cost as much as their IDE subscription. The extension count hits triple digits while startup time approaches geological epochs. We've all been there — convincing ourselves that this color theme or that bracket colorizer is the missing piece to becoming a 10x developer. Spoiler: it never is.

The classic developer delusion cycle. Start with a lightweight text editor thinking you'll be the next keyboard ninja. Three plugins later, you've turned your sleek editor into a resource-hogging circus that takes longer to start than a Monday morning standup. The transformation is complete when you're staring at the loading screen wondering why you didn't just install the bloated IDE you were avoiding in the first place.

Ah, the classic developer paradox. "I prefer VS Code because it's lightweight and simple!" *proceeds to transform it into a computational black hole with 47 extensions that colorize brackets, play lo-fi beats when you commit, and predict your next line of code based on your zodiac sign* The irony of turning your "lightweight" editor into something that requires 16GB of RAM just to open a text file is the purest form of developer self-deception. We're all just one extension away from needing a cooling system for our laptops.