What's Stopping You From Coding Like This?

Friend: "I love TypeScript!" Me: *shows them actual TypeScript code with VSCode extension development* Friend: *visible confusion* Turns out they just love the idea of type safety, not the existential crisis of configuring tsconfig.json and wrestling with extension APIs. It's like saying you love cooking but fainting at the sight of a raw chicken. The expectation vs. reality gap is wider than my monitor bezels.

The eternal battle between compilation time and coffee breaks! While we're all busy pretending to wait for C++ to compile so we can scroll Reddit, TypeScript/JavaScript devs are out here ruining the sacred tradition with their interpreted languages. The conspiracy board in the background perfectly represents the chaotic thought process of someone trying to justify why their build still needs 20 minutes in 2023. "But optimization takes time!" Yeah, and so does my third coffee, thank you very much.

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.

The aristocracy of web development has arrived! TypeScript developers looking down their noses at JavaScript peasants with that perfect mix of pity and disgust. Nothing says "I'm better than you" quite like strong typing and compile-time error checking. Meanwhile, JavaScript developers are out there living dangerously with their undefined is not a function errors, like savages without powdered wigs. The TypeScript nobility wouldn't dare touch code that doesn't explicitly declare its intentions - how barbaric!

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The top panel shows the simple, elegant approach to coding that we all pretend to advocate for in design meetings: just instantiate a class and call a method. Clean. Direct. Sensible. But then there's what we actually do when no one's watching (bottom panel): create an unholy chain of factories, managers, services, observers, and other enterprise patterns that would make even the most dedicated architecture astronaut blush. It's the classic "I could write this in 3 lines, but my resume needs buzzwords" approach. We've all been there—turning a simple task into a dissertation-worthy implementation because "scalability" and "best practices," when really we just wanted to flex our design pattern muscles.