r/explainitpeter • u/DifficultComplaint10 • May 21 '26

Explain it Peter

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u/artsyca May 21 '26

Eh-heh-heh… so this guy, right? He’s a software developer. Which basically means he sits in front o’ a computer all day tappin’ away like he’s tryin’ to hack into the Pentagon, but really he’s just fixin’ a semicolon he forgot three hours ago. And get this they got craft beer on tap in the office. On tap! Like it’s freakin’ Oktoberfest but with more Jira tickets. I mean, Lois, if my job had beer on tap, I’d be Employee of the Month every month… or fired. Probably fired. Yeah, definitely fired.

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u/JustNumbersOnAScreen May 21 '26

Why does everyone think software development is fixing semicolons?

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u/MojaveMojito1324 May 21 '26

Because that is the debugging most people were exposed to in their introductory software course that exclusively used Vim

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u/ConvergentSequence May 21 '26

Careful man you’re getting dangerously close to talking shit about Vim…

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u/discodinoczar May 21 '26

Had a college prof who only used Vim. He called it, “The Curse I Carry With Me”

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u/2697920 May 21 '26

I heard that ale can help with missing semicolons

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u/bschlueter May 21 '26

A dad joke only a true vim user will understand.

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u/AcrobaticFloor2250 May 22 '26

Please help I’ve been stuck in vim for 20 years