Programmer Humor

32710 readers

15 users here now

Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)

Rules:

Posts must be relevant to programming, programmers, or computer science.
No NSFW content.
Jokes must be in good taste. No hate speech, bigotry, etc.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

305

Ok, at some point we made a big mistake. (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by lawrence to c/[email protected]

31 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hacker News post about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39309783 (source available)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] thesporkeffect 29 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I like to think I can usually look at code in languages I don't know and still get the gist of what it does but I am drawing a complete blank. Is this even slightly legible to anyone and if yes please explain

[–] SloppyPuppy 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Yea, i was really trying to understand… and then I was like yeah fuck this and regex too.

[–] mvirts 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Gotta learn regex... C++ not so much 😹

Fear not, template abuse is not a necessary practice

Edit: wait what is this I thought it was c++ at first. Java? C#? Has an extends keyword

[–] immutabletest 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This is a Typescript type-level computation (which is Turing-complete AFAIK). However this kind of trickery is usually done for fun and to explore how much could be achieved just on the compile step.

[–] mvirts 1 points 11 months ago

Lol thanks that saves me a lot of googling 😹 that makes a lot of sense

load more comments (1 replies)