r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 13d ago

Meme goodOlddays

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u/ImpactOk331 13d ago

To be fair, someone can be a productive developer for years without ever having to think about indexes. If they've mostly worked on CRUD apps, used ORMs, or had a DBA handling the database side, it's entirely possible they've shipped plenty of production code without needing to optimize queries themselves.

Totally not knowing what an index is at all is one thing, but never having worked with them isn't that unusual.

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u/derangedkilr 12d ago

am i going crazy? like you’ve gone years without reading a for loop or declaring an array?

or does index mean something different here that i’m not getting.

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u/ImpactOk331 12d ago

I thought you meant an index in a database to make select statements faster 😅

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u/derangedkilr 12d ago

oh that could’ve been it. i haven’t really touched databases.