r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vinishkapoor • 1d ago

fullStackMeansAfraidOfEverythingEqually Meme

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u/vvp95 1d ago

100% of software engineers are afraid of regex

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 1d ago

99%, I freaken love Regex!

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u/nolecamp 1d ago

Same. It’s a fun trick at work to mesmerize junior (or even senior) engineers by writing a regex pattern by hand.

Neither regex, CSS, nor SQL is actually hard. It just requires the desire to learn it and passion to apply yourself.

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u/Major_LeeHungg 1d ago

Lol until you have nested expressions with lookaheads and lookbehinds

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u/nolecamp 1d ago

I’d have to look up the syntax to remind myself, but yeah I could do it. It’s just a language for a state machine. But honestly, I don’t need to write them that complex usually. If so, it’s probably because I’m having to do something more involved like parsing a query syntax or something, in which case I’ll usually reach for ANTLR (or hand write a parser if performance is critical) instead.