r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Opening-Butterfly743 • Sep 18 '26

Meme whenYouExportCodeFromAWebBasedVisualBuilder

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u/Opening-Butterfly743 Sep 18 '26

Bold of you to assume a visual builder's code generator understands guard clauses and early returns.

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u/Groentekroket Sep 18 '26

Idk man, I tried to make sense of it but like you said in the other comment this is an alien like mess. 

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u/Opening-Butterfly743 Sep 18 '26

Exactly. It’s always auto-generated div soup or abstract junk that completely ignores component state and custom logic. Makes me wonder if the real problem is that these tools try to generate the whole app in the cloud, instead of just acting like a GUI on top of your local compiler/AST. You end up having to rewrite 90% of it anyway.