Please Don't Make Me Go Back There

Content Why someone would use as a first programming language: Python: For it's simple syntax Java: To learn basic computer science concepts C: See Java BASIC: They were in cryogenic storage since 1968 Bash: To make themselves feel productive Git: To actually, why would someone use Git as their FIRST language? HTML: To make themselves feel like a programmer CSS: To make themselves feel like a cooler programmer JavaScript: They have a really good idea for a website TypeScript: They have a REALLY good idea for a website Brainfuck: They want to gain new respect for Alan Turing C: Meth addict that needs the same speed from their language C: Cocaine addict that needs the same speed from their language Carbon: To get a head-start on the 10-year job requirement PHP: Masochism Fortran: Masochism but with a better paycheck Rust: Cult induction Microsoft Excel: To feel like a geek without being a programmer Game of Life: Ooh... pretty squares.

Oh. My. GOD. Even when you flee to TypeScript to escape JavaScript's chaos, the React error demons STILL find you! 😱 That unholy TypeScript error is basically screaming "NICE TRY, SWEETIE, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM UNDEFINED PROPERTIES!" It's like upgrading from a haunted house to a haunted mansion - same ghosts, fancier floors! The bus to sanity has left the station, and both JS and TS are sitting there with that existential dread look wondering why they ever chose web development in the first place. THERE. IS. NO. ESCAPE.

Remember when your code buddy was just a rubber duck? Now we've got AI assistants responding to our desperate 3AM comments with heartfelt "Love you bro" messages. Nothing says modern programming quite like having an emotional exchange with a TypeScript file at monster-manager.ts while your real friends are asleep. The three-second "thinking" pause before the response is just *chef's kiss* - just enough time to make you forget you're talking to a machine that would absolutely ghost you if its server went down.

The bell curve of programming wisdom strikes again! The average devs (34% on each side) are busy crying about "proper" type usage, screaming that you absolutely MUST use unsigned integers for positive values. Meanwhile, both the beginners (left) and the enlightened masters (right) just use regular integers for everything and get on with their lives. Why waste precious brain cycles on unsigned vs signed when you could be solving actual problems? Type purists will spend 3 hours arguing about uint8 vs int8 while the rest of us shipped the feature and went home early. The circle of programming life is complete when you realize simplicity beats pedantry every time.

Oh snap! This is Boolean variables in their natural habitat - doing the splits between TRUE and FALSE with absolutely no middle ground! Just like this person on the subway bench stretching into oblivion, booleans only know two states: completely true or utterly false. No "kinda true" or "sorta false" allowed in their binary world! They're the drama queens of programming - always dealing in absolutes while the rest of us float-type variables are just trying to exist somewhere in the decimal points of life.

Ah, the classic cat programmer joke! The cat's paw fits perfectly in that tiny box labeled "str" while the box itself is typed as "Sequence[Sequence[str]]" - because cats don't care about your complex nested type annotations. They follow one simple rule: if it's a container and they fit, they sit... even if that container was meant to hold a sequence of sequences of strings. Your carefully crafted type system means nothing to a determined feline. Just like how your beautifully architected codebase means nothing to that junior dev who just discovered Stack Overflow.