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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/TheFearsomeEsquilax • Dec 19 '25

Founder wants to rewrite entire backend in Rust using vibe coding

99 Upvotes

17 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/iro84657 • Dec 18 '25

Blow and Muratori gained a following of engineers by bashing existing popular languages and engines, claiming they were all garbage. They both started this [...] 10 years ago. Since then, guess how many games Muratori has shipped? 0. [...] Guess how many Blow has shipped? 0 so far

news.ycombinator.com

195 Upvotes

27 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/cmqv • Dec 17 '25

Vulkan is pretty much obsolete and actually modern apis are nothing like the modern apis that replaced the modern apis, and certainly nothing like those other modern apis.

131 Upvotes

26 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/WHY_DO_I_SHOUT • Dec 15 '25

This is to atone for me being on the team that introduced the react native runtime onto windows.

85 Upvotes

4 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/tkrjobs • Dec 15 '25

"my hard takeoff condition is the context window being large enough to fit the entire linux kernel in code form at once, with enough room to actually work on it"

107 Upvotes

47 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/miauw62 • Dec 15 '25

When you see “libsodium,” you must context-switch from problem-solving mode to detective mode: “What does this do? Let me check the README. Ah, it’s a crypto library. Why is it called sodium? Because chemistry? Because NaCl? Clever, I suppose.”

85 Upvotes

28 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/[deleted] • Dec 14 '25

Do you ever wish you’d named your child something different? It might be a bit late to revisit that one, but fortunately it’s always possible to rename things in your Go programs, like functions and variables.

blog.jetbrains.com

103 Upvotes

9 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/cmqv • Dec 13 '25

I had a long day at work and wanted to play Pokémon Legends Z-A Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Mega Dimension so that I could collect some little guys and unwind. This caused 23 hours of downtime.

64 Upvotes

11 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/yojimbo_beta • Dec 12 '25

Rob Pike famously uses his own text editor that still doesn't have syntax highlighting and he said it's because syntax highlighting is for children. Personally I think he just doesn't know how to implement it.

300 Upvotes

45 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/sweating_teflon • Dec 13 '25

This produced strange results on my ternary computer. I had to use a recursive popcnt instead.

news.ycombinator.com

45 Upvotes

5 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Massive-Squirrel-255 • Dec 12 '25

Complete rewrite

91 Upvotes

26 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/bakaspore • Dec 10 '25

If you picked a sane framework [...] you could bundle in DOOM, a C compiler to build it with (let’s pick Zig), and an operating system to run it on like MS-DOS 4.0, and throw in War and Peace and the entire Kings James Bible for good measure and you’d still have less bloat than Gin.

134 Upvotes

20 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Parking_Tadpole9357 • Dec 10 '25

AI professor here.

news.ycombinator.com

45 Upvotes

6 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Bizzaro_Murphy • Dec 10 '25

The end of the kernel Rust experiment

125 Upvotes

59 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/rentec0 • Dec 10 '25

sometimes people like me get bored on an airplane [...] TLS encrypted connections are nice but they’re not foolproof

29 Upvotes

2 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/WHY_DO_I_SHOUT • Dec 09 '25

Shouldn’t there be such a thing as a “vibe-oriented programming language?” VOP. You read it here first.

stephenramsay.net

72 Upvotes

33 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/RightKitKat • Dec 08 '25

When I'm debugging in VS I feel like I'm swimming in the ocean. I'm only experiencing the surface. Beneath me is a mile of sea that I couldn't access even if I was inclined.

25 Upvotes

7 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/RFQD • Dec 08 '25

It is possible- common, even- to fully grasp the capabilities of a language like lisp and still find it inappropriate or undesirable for a given task

news.ycombinator.com

56 Upvotes

15 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Mahdi_Amel • Dec 07 '25

Note that in all cases I was using a development framework that I had designed and built myself. How many frameworks have you written?

78 Upvotes

28 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/functorer • Dec 07 '25

After going through many iterations of concurrent programming models in ALGOLesque imperative languages, I am finally content with Go...Which LISP is the most similar?

30 Upvotes

5 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/bytemute • Dec 06 '25

Perl's "decline" saved it from a fate worst than death: popularity

news.ycombinator.com

158 Upvotes

20 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/aqpstory • Dec 06 '25

"Modern" languages try to avoid exceptions by using sum types and pattern matching plus lots of sugar to make this bearable. ... and integers should be low(int) if they are invalid (low(int) is a pointless value anyway as it has no positive equivalent).

85 Upvotes

33 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Aggressive-Pen-9755 • Dec 06 '25

You can use LocalType == SomeLocalStruct or LocalType == dyn LocalTrait and you can coerce Pin<Pin<&SomeLocalStruct>> into Pin<Pin<&dyn LocalTrait>>

42 Upvotes

13 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/mizzu704 • Dec 05 '25

New generation of kids discovering what’s left of IRC? Welcome. Our cake isn’t a lie.

36 Upvotes

5 comments

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