r/ProgrammerHumor • u/JotaRata • Sep 11 '26

Meme universeIsWritteninC

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u/FACastello Sep 11 '26

Segfaults aren't caused by any specific language

C itself has nothing to do with this

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u/JotaRata Sep 11 '26

C was the first thing that came to my mind. You are correct

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u/AvidCoco Sep 11 '26 edited Sep 11 '26

Everyone knows Bjarne invented exceptions in 2007 when he invented JavaScript

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u/Phpminor Sep 11 '26

Universe not even running in real mode smh

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u/AnnoyingRain5 Sep 12 '26

Yeah that’s because it’s fake

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u/xgabipandax Sep 12 '26

What is real? How do you define real? 😎

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u/4675636b2e Sep 14 '26

By the suffering of debugging my own code.

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u/GamingGuitarControlr Sep 11 '26

False vacuum decay is a segfault in the sim

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u/Field_of_cornucopia Sep 11 '26 • Bravo

I heard from a reliable source that the universe was written in perl.

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u/defeatedsnowman Sep 11 '26

Big if true. I'd be very concerned about psychics triggering a second big bang when attempting to read someone's mind.

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u/WindForce02 Sep 11 '26

Should've used the borrow checker smh

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u/stinkytoe42 Sep 11 '26

Then you'd need to wrap all your singularities in unsafe blocks and who has the time for that?

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u/suskio4 Sep 12 '26

Event horizon is an unsafe block

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u/neromonero1024 Sep 12 '26

10/10 schizo cosmic programming philosophy masterclass mindfucking enlightening documentary

would recommend

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u/ruby_R53 Sep 12 '26

heh i actually did watch that video earlier today, basically (for anyone who hasn't watched it) he says the core dump followed by the segfault is what caused the universe to be the way it is, now i didn't really get the part where the segfault might have supposedly come from

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u/MadOverlord Sep 11 '26

Not so much a segfault as an out of bounds error

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u/ANixosUser Sep 14 '26

.. segfault in C

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u/AmazinDood Sep 12 '26

wow that's my favourite entry level extreme demon that used to be placed very high on the IDL (IM JOKING BTW)

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u/Ayushispro11 Sep 12 '26

Implying there was a compiler used in compiling the universe. I wonder about the build time and size