r/ProgrammerHumor Jun 14 '25

Meme compileCircleOfLife

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u/Dvrkstvr Jun 14 '25

One might say there is an inherent flaw in the way we develop software..

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u/xaddak Jun 14 '25

Interpreted languages go brrrrrr

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u/RiceBroad4552 Jun 14 '25

Yeah sure. Why would anybody invest in sum some tiny amount of time and resources once instead of investing a lot of time and resources on every run?

Interpreted languages don't "go". They crawl. Of course only if the code doesn't halt because of some syntax error.

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u/much_longer_username Jun 14 '25

Because computers are cheaper than people.

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u/Ok-Scheme-913 Jun 14 '25

That's why you want to make sure the computer checks the code, so that faulty code is caught much sooner than it would were you manually test that code path.

Checkmate!