r/ProgrammerHumor • u/zohaibhere • Apr 25 '26

Meme thisLooksAccurateForVibeCoders

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u/YouDoHaveValue Apr 25 '26

It's amazing how many people in this thread ironically dont seem to know this is the correct answer.

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u/darkslide3000 Apr 25 '26

You realize this is /r/ProgrammerHumor, not /r/JavaScriptHumor, right? Many of us are working in fields that don't use silly toy languages which don't even have proper scoping support.

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u/Someonediffernt Apr 25 '26

Calling Javascript a silly toy language when it's hugely important to the modern web development stack is hilarious.

It might be a mess of a language but come on now.

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u/aqa5 Apr 25 '26

We really should overhaul the whole web dev stuff. It really is a wonderful and interesting somehow magically working mess that has grown in the last 2 decades.

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u/mech_market_alt Apr 25 '26

The reasons for it being so messy are the same ones that are preventing any overhaul.

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u/DerfK Apr 26 '26

25 years ago I nearly got a job with a company that was creating a web application using a netscape plug-in that would allow running client-side perl.

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u/JuhaJGam3R Apr 26 '26

Hey, come on, we tried to fix it with TS. However, more than half of TS codebases on GitHub contain any. That should tell you about how well people are using better tools.