Make Compilers Great Again

The modern JavaScript project directory, where config files multiply faster than rabbits. What started as a simple idea now requires 20+ config files just to tell your computer how to run "hello world". The character on the left represents the old-school developer shocked at seeing a modern TypeScript project with its ecosystem of linters, type checkers, and build tools. Meanwhile, the character on the right is just trying to survive in a world where your package.json needs its own support group.

JavaScript: where errors silently build a stairway to hell while you smile, blissfully unaware. The C++ dev gets crushed by compiler errors immediately. Meanwhile, the JavaScript dev happily skips along, building an entire application on a foundation of runtime disasters that won't reveal themselves until production. Nothing like that special feeling when your JS code runs perfectly the first time... right before it spectacularly implodes when a user clicks a button.

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The eternal struggle between type safety and laziness. Top panel shows a developer feeling crushed by TypeScript's rigid demands for proper interfaces and type declarations. Bottom panel reveals the forbidden salvation: "" + 5 suddenly becomes "5" and all your problems vanish like magic. After seven years as a tech lead, I've seen entire codebases held together by string concatenation and toString() calls. The technical debt grows, but hey—the sprint was completed on time! The angel of JavaScript delivers us from compiler errors with her divine message: "Just make it a string, bro. It'll work fine in production."

Your IDE watching you create variables like they're endangered species that must be preserved at all costs, only to abandon them immediately. That look of absolute betrayal when your linter highlights the fifth unused variable of the day. It's like adopting puppies and leaving them at the shelter 20 minutes later. Your IDE is judging you harder than your ex who caught you saying "I'll optimize this later" for the 47th time this week.

Content When l'm shitting on JavaScript and the TypeScript developer thinks l'm on his side