Text editors Memes

OH. MY. GOD. The existential crisis of discovering the entire coding universe is just VS Code with different makeup on! 💅 The meme shows the classic astronaut "always has been" format but with a PLOT TWIST - the astronaut is discovering that even Kiro (that cute little ghost editor) is just another VS Code clone lurking on our precious planet! The sheer AUDACITY of these text editors pretending to be unique when they're all just VS Code wearing different outfits! Next you'll tell me oxygen is just spicy air! I can't even!

Serial killers and psychopaths might be terrifying, but they've got nothing on the true monsters of our industry—developers who write flawless code in Notepad with zero internet help. You know that colleague who claims they "just whipped up" a thousand-line algorithm in plain text editor, offline, and it worked perfectly the first time? Yeah, back away slowly. That's not talent—that's a warning sign. After 15 years in this field, I've come to accept that anyone who can code without Stack Overflow probably also has a basement you don't want to see. Even my IDE's autocomplete feature is questioning your life choices right now.

The evolution of coding tools, as told by Vince McMahon's increasingly ecstatic reactions: Visual Studio Code? A mild nod of approval. Notepad++? Now we're talking - getting excited! Regular Notepad? *heavy breathing intensifies* Pen and paper? ABSOLUTE ECSTASY! Ancient stone tablet? *MIND COMPLETELY BLOWN* Nothing says "I understand modern software development" quite like forcing students to code on dead trees. Bonus points if you have to trace through a recursive function without being able to hit backspace.

Remember when we argued about text editors like they were sports teams? Now we're just watching AI companies slap version numbers on VS Code forks like they're NFTs. "My VS Code fork has more digits than yours" is the new "my dad can beat up your dad." Meanwhile, Emacs users are still configuring their first keystroke from 1976.

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute DEVOLUTION of programmers is too real! 😭 On the left, we have the CHAD programmer of yesteryear - building an ENTIRE OPERATING SYSTEM FROM SCRATCH, talking directly to God, and casually mentioning CIA conspiracies while coding in 640x480 resolution like some kind of digital BARBARIAN! And what do we have now? A pathetic little doge in a coffee sweater, TRAPPED in Vim, desperately clinging to Stack Overflow and Spotify for emotional support! Can't even exit a text editor without begging for help! The audacity! The TRAGEDY! For the uninitiated: TempleOS was an operating system coded entirely by one man (Terry Davis) who claimed divine inspiration. Meanwhile, Vim is that text editor where generations of programmers have been held hostage because nobody remembers how to exit it (it's :q! by the way, YOU'RE WELCOME).