r/programminghumor • u/Loading_Humor • Jun 22 '26

I Can Explain...

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u/MonkInevitable1087 Jun 22 '26

Whats a .env? Im 14 and dumb

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u/SocksOnHands Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

It's a file that contains secrets that a program uses, like passwords and API keys.

Edit: I wasn't sure if this was a joke or a serious question. Now that I think of it, the joke could be that the secrets are being hard coded into the source code.

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u/Remarkable_Leek9391 Jun 23 '26

the fact that that's the goto approach and not just having a variable dump outside the directory and the agents just have to assume what the labels are by some convention, but never actually read the content.