It's All Webviews? Always Has Been

You spend years learning design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and architectural paradigms. You master REST, GraphQL, microservices, event-driven systems. You debate tabs vs spaces with religious fervor. Then one day you realize your entire career boils down to: take data from point A, send it to point B via HTTP. That's it. That's the whole job. Just fancy plumbing with extra steps and a lot of YAML files. The "always has been" meme format hits different when you realize the astronaut with the gun represents your senior dev who's been trying to tell you this for years while you were busy overengineering everything with 47 microservices.

The classic developer life cycle: spend a decade mastering JavaScript, and all you get is older. Notice how they didn't mention getting rich or successful—just "not young anymore." The punchline hits harder than a production bug on Friday afternoon. Also, they spelled "JavaScript" as "JavaScipt," which is either a typo or the perfect metaphor for how JavaScript itself feels—almost right, but something's definitely off. And that 420 likes? Chef's kiss for the cosmic irony of getting high engagement on a post about life's disappointments.

Five of these panels show the typical innovation S-curve where technology evolves from primitive (MS-DOS, Internet Explorer) to peak performance (Windows 95, Chrome). Then there's music... where we apparently peaked at Napster and it's been downhill ever since. The real innovation was clearly the ability to download entire discographies without paying a cent. Progress isn't always what corporate overlords want you to believe it is.

The stark reality of every developer's life - a minimalist, boring IDE that looks like it was designed by someone who hates color... paired with code that's a chaotic explosion of pastel madness. Dark mode for the tool, unicorn vomit for the actual work. The irony is *chef's kiss* - we spend hours customizing our editor themes but then write code that looks like it was formatted by a 5-year-old with access to a 64-pack of crayons and no adult supervision.

Ah, the inevitable evolution of every code warrior! First you're Patrick Star - blissfully unaware that your "hello world" program is held together with digital duct tape. Then comes the SpongeBob phase - bright-eyed and thinking "I'll revolutionize tech with my clean code practices!" Fast forward a few years and *boom* - you're Squidward, staring at legacy code written by your past self, wondering why you chose this career path instead of opening that beach-side taco stand. The transformation from "what's a semicolon?" to "I will end whoever wrote this dependency" is basically a developer rite of passage. It's not burnout, it's enlightenment! 🧘‍♂️

Someone woke up and chose violence against Electron apps, and honestly? They're spitting facts. The rant reads like a manifesto written by someone who just watched Slack consume 4GB of RAM to display text messages. The whole "webapps were not supposed to have life-altering effects" bit hits different when you realize we're literally running entire operating systems inside Chrome just to display a to-do list. We went from "write once, run anywhere" to "download 300MB just to check your email." And that Telnet joke? Chef's kiss. Because apparently wrapping a website in Chromium and calling it "native" is somehow more secure than protocols from the 70s. At least Telnet was honest about its lack of security. The kicker is the "REAL Web Development" gaslighting at the end. Yeah, building a 500MB Discord client that's just a glorified browser wrapper is definitely what Tim Berners-Lee envisioned when he invented the web. We've been played harder than a fiddle at a bluegrass festival.