The Tab Hoarder's Manifesto

Content Programnet 1 TIPP 1.4 MILLION TUTORIALS CAN'T BE WRONG FOR LOPS BREAKFAST ARRAYS START WITH 500x Start you day right at 0

This meme perfectly captures the love-hate relationship programmers have with Rust's infamous borrow checker! The meme shows how the Rust borrow checker (the system that enforces memory safety) is perceived differently depending on your programming background: If you come from low-level languages (like C/C++), the borrow checker feels like a blessing - "Oh dear, oh dear. Gorgeous." It's preventing memory leaks and segfaults that would normally haunt you! If you come from high-level languages (like Python or JavaScript), the borrow checker seems like an unnecessary obstacle - "You f***ing donkey." Why do I need to fight with the compiler about ownership when I'm used to automatic garbage collection? It's that moment when you're trying to write a simple Rust program and the compiler keeps yelling at you about lifetimes and borrowing rules... while C++ programmers are nodding approvingly because they've dealt with much worse memory issues!

GASP! The absolute HORROR of discovering that YOU were the criminal mastermind behind that spaghetti-code monstrosity from last year! 😱 The sheer AUDACITY of past-you to write such atrocities and then VANISH into the night, leaving present-you to deal with the aftermath! It's like opening your code and finding a ransom note from your former self saying "Good luck figuring THIS out, sucker!" And the worst part? You can't even blame anyone else for this catastrophe! The villain was inside the house THE ENTIRE TIME!

Content Using a game engine so that you don't waste time doing work somebody else already did Using a high level graphics API so that you have more granular control over your code Using a low level graphics API so that you have very granular control over the hardware and your code runs very fast "Fuck it I'm writing a text adventure"

Content Crypto will revolutionize the banking industry GPT will replace all humans PEOPLE WITH NO TECH KNOWLEDGE

Content Steve Maine smaine TIL that changing random stuff until your program works is "hacky" and "bad coding practice" but if you do it fast enough it's "MachineLearning" and pays 4x your current salary 6:40 PM 10 May 18 629 Retweets 1,692 Likes 17