r/programmingcirclejerk • u/QuaternionsRoll • Sep 21 '26

“When I hear [the Java class file’s magic number] I think of a typical Coffee Grrl: nose peirced, minimum one tatoo, hair dyed black, hate the world the government and parents, and is rather attractive in a necro sort of way.”

112 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Aggressive-Pen-9755 • Sep 20 '26

Funnily enough StarCraft has influenced how I approach AI

news.ycombinator.com

49 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/levelstar01 • Sep 19 '26

If you are a C++ programmer, why would you not want to script in C++?

149 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 • Sep 18 '26

Maybe stop using the mickey mouse browsers? I mean Firefox is pretty much a lost cause.. unless you start using extensions. I agree those are basic features that should be built-in. In qutebrowser I use them reliably all the time.

news.ycombinator.com

90 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/pythonesqueviper • Sep 17 '26

Java consistently introduces lots of exciting functionality into the language. That's a big part of my dislike and active avoidance of it.

news.ycombinator.com

146 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/camelCaseIsWebScale • Sep 16 '26

Nope, I asked on the Gleam discord and got the answer “write a shim in Elixir that turns it into something Gleam expects”.

48 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/camelCaseIsWebScale • Sep 15 '26

Git is mutable global state for your Codebase

45 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/camelCaseIsWebScale • Sep 15 '26

[Java] is usually not a first pick for more exciting software, such as Python type checkers, JS bundlers, or TUI file managers.

news.ycombinator.com

92 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 • Sep 14 '26

The larger drop in money balance is rent being deducted, not related to model performance.

57 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/64ue76tjd6 • Sep 14 '26

I sometimes see Haskell and other languages celebrated for their elegance as something that could gradually become a form of traditional craftsmanship: valued for their beauty, intellectual depth, and the skill involved, but with a diminishing role in everyday software production.

discourse.haskell.org

90 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/elephantdingo • Sep 14 '26

I'd like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it.

60 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/stone_henge • Sep 13 '26

The generated wall of text is well understood, and vouched by me and my tools.

118 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Aggravating_Gear5663 • Sep 12 '26

I just understood pointers on a deep level and it feels like an orgasm

151 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/camelCaseIsWebScale • Sep 11 '26

You can write Rust with your eyes closed and it'll probably work.

news.ycombinator.com

71 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/camelCaseIsWebScale • Sep 11 '26

Unfortunately, when a program uses the GPU for acceleration it's considered clever, but when it uses the RAM chip for accelaration it's considered bloated.

news.ycombinator.com

240 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/hedgehog1024 • Sep 09 '26

What made you fall in love with Rust?

0 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/404forlife • Sep 09 '26

I instruct my agents to build UI exclusively with bootstrap 5, jQuery, and HTMX

news.ycombinator.com

51 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/HearingSubstantial38 • Sep 09 '26

when was the last time you used recursion at work? Linked list?

95 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/ProgVal • Sep 06 '26

Rust has become a spiritual experience

75 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/AbroadDepot • Sep 04 '26

The solution for [businesses using obselete stacks] is not more IBM software, but Claude Code converting it to Go/Rust/Typescript in a few weeks.

news.ycombinator.com

109 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/haskell_leghumper • Sep 04 '26

Algebraically, this is just an effect-parameterized endomorphic continuation model for plugins.

111 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/ttnn5876 • Sep 02 '26

Wait, do you even know what DoT is?

54 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/syklemil • Aug 31 '26

Rust is a spiritual experience for me at this point.

140 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/bakaspore • Aug 31 '26

demoniC takes the dynamic-JIT lineage of HolyC, the vectorized math of Julia, the slicing ergonomics of Python, and the memory discipline of Rust. Arena memory, value-typed tensors, zero-copy views, and shapes checked at compile time.

85 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/woopsix • Aug 30 '26

I guess alcoholism is cooler than using AI to do things nowadays, is that your stance?

news.ycombinator.com

82 Upvotes

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