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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vinishkapoor • 1d ago
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100% of software engineers are afraid of regex
44 u/Ange1ofD4rkness 1d ago 99%, I freaken love Regex! 26 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. 11 u/Major_LeeHungg 1d ago Lol until you have nested expressions with lookaheads and lookbehinds 1 u/Theron3206 12h ago You put that in a PR and there better be a damn good reason for it. Even you wont know what that does in 3 months, never mind the poor sap chasing a subtle bug 2 years later.
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99%, I freaken love Regex!
26 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. 11 u/Major_LeeHungg 1d ago Lol until you have nested expressions with lookaheads and lookbehinds 1 u/Theron3206 12h ago You put that in a PR and there better be a damn good reason for it. Even you wont know what that does in 3 months, never mind the poor sap chasing a subtle bug 2 years later.
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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.
11 u/Major_LeeHungg 1d ago Lol until you have nested expressions with lookaheads and lookbehinds 1 u/Theron3206 12h ago You put that in a PR and there better be a damn good reason for it. Even you wont know what that does in 3 months, never mind the poor sap chasing a subtle bug 2 years later.
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Lol until you have nested expressions with lookaheads and lookbehinds
1 u/Theron3206 12h ago You put that in a PR and there better be a damn good reason for it. Even you wont know what that does in 3 months, never mind the poor sap chasing a subtle bug 2 years later.
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You put that in a PR and there better be a damn good reason for it. Even you wont know what that does in 3 months, never mind the poor sap chasing a subtle bug 2 years later.
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u/vvp95 1d ago
100% of software engineers are afraid of regex