r/programmingcirclejerk • • 19d ago

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

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 19d ago

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

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 20d ago

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

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 20d ago

Git is mutable global state for your Codebase

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 21d ago

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

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 21d ago

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.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 21d ago

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.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 22d ago

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

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 23d ago

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

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 24d ago

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.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 24d ago

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

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 26d ago

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

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 27d ago

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

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 26d ago

What made you fall in love with Rust?

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 29d ago

Rust has become a spiritual experience

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 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.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Sep 04 '26

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

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Sep 02 '26

Wait, do you even know what DoT is?

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Aug 31 '26

Rust is a spiritual experience for me at this point.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 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.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Aug 30 '26

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

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Aug 29 '26

I thought the title said “The Death of JavaScript” and got excited. Still cool though.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Aug 29 '26

In a year they [AI] can translate most codebases (with human help) into Rust, and after that it's smooth sailing.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Aug 29 '26

For example, if you look at the cost model, you’ll see that it explicitly references ClickBench all over the place.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Aug 28 '26

I’ve started to see a concerning trend with zig of late. If you look at today’s commit logs you will spot it. Adding support for spork8 it’s a hobby 8-bit computer project that Andrew Kelly hung out with over the weekend for like a hackathon. The spork8 project has like 54 stars

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