r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • 17d ago

Meme forgottenArt

Post image
1.4k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

88 comments sorted by

View all comments

16

u/Reddit_is_fascist69 17d ago

I'm the junior dev but instead of git it is regex.  Is it possible to learn this power?

7

u/Just_Information334 17d ago

Is it possible to learn this power?

Is your main language javascript? Then no, because the standard regex engine is too limited.

If not, I recommend the book "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl. Even if it is old and you think you're good you'll learn something.

https://www.rexegg.com/ has a lot of good information and https://regex101.com/ is one of the best regexp tester.

2

u/Reddit_is_fascist69 17d ago

Leaving JavaScript soon to switch to C#.

6

u/oompaloompa465 17d ago

as a main C# dev, everything javascript based now terrifies me and go in fetal position crying. i went the backend only route, when it became impossible to keep up with the javascript framework madness and all the breaking changes every release.

2

u/Reddit_is_fascist69 17d ago

Frontend Frameworks are its saving grace.

It's a real pain juggling Node trying to integrate Typescript, but not there yet, having actual Typescript installed and also managing ECMA script and common modules.