Slapping On A .Expect Is Also Error Handling!

The perfect illustration of every Rust evangelist's nightmare - someone who's perfectly content with their "inferior" programming language. The gray NPC face getting increasingly angry at someone who dares to be satisfied with their current performance is peak programming tribalism. It's like telling a CrossFit enthusiast you're happy with your occasional jog around the block. The audacity! How DARE you be content when there's memory safety and blazing speed to be had?! Next thing you'll tell me is that you don't even care about zero-cost abstractions!

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?"

This is what happens when a Python dev tries to write Rust without actually learning Rust! The code is a horrifying Frankenstein's monster of Python syntax smuggled into Rust—like that .expect("Failed to read line") that would immediately error out since it's attached to a read operation that already completed. And don't get me started on using match with a dot operator right after! The error handling with Ok(num) => num looks legit until you see that bizarre Err(_) => continue syntax that would make the Rust compiler have an existential crisis. It's basically Python wearing a Rust trenchcoat trying to sneak into the memory-safe club.

Let's face it—no matter which programming language is your "baby," you're still a card-carrying member of Nerdville. Population: you and everyone else reading this. The only exception? MATLAB users who get the prestigious title of "engineer AND nerd." That extra badge doesn't make your code run any faster though, just means you paid more for your license. And poor FORTRAN devs are just "old and nerd"—like that vintage Star Wars t-shirt you refuse to throw away despite the holes. Still compiling on that machine from 1995, aren't you?

The romance manga we never asked for but secretly needed: "C-senpai and the Memory Management Disaster." That awkward moment when you're trying to flirt with C programming but end up with a segmentation fault. The C language is literally offering pointers while warning about manual memory management - the ultimate toxic relationship in programming. After 20 years of coding, I still wake up in cold sweats thinking about dangling pointers. Rust developers are just C programmers who finally went to therapy.

The classic "create your own job security" maneuver. Taking a job where Rust isn't required, then sneakily rewriting a problematic component in your favorite language is the corporate equivalent of moving into someone's house and slowly replacing all their furniture. Before they know it, you're not just living there—you own the place. This is how tech evangelism works in the trenches. No fancy conference talks, just guerrilla warfare: "Oh that critical component that kept breaking? I fixed it... in Rust. Now nobody else can maintain it but me. Checkmate, management." And the 270 upvotes? That's 270 developers who've either done this or are taking notes.