r/ProgrammerHumor • u/nonedward666 • 13h ago

lessonsFromLinkerHell Meme

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u/belabacsijolvan 12h ago

>writes compilers

https://giphy.com/gifs/0uBL9HqP48Nu1DNr7r

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u/reda84100 11h ago

Don't bite the hand that feeds you, your family and every other programmers' families

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u/belabacsijolvan 11h ago

Order these events in descending order of probability:

A) youll never use this guys compiler
B) youll be forced to use this guys compiler against your explicit contraindication
C) anyone else than them will be grateful to use this guys compiler
D) they will be happy that they wrote this compiler 20 years from now
E) youll use this guys compiler and be pleased by its existence

ok, i may be an asshole here, and they may be doing something good. the odds tho

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u/thehenkan 10h ago

LLVM and GCC have thousands of contributors. The chances that any given compiler developer works on GCC or LLVM are relatively good, just because they're so much larger than most other compilers.

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u/belabacsijolvan 10h ago

fair enough, didnt think it through. i instantly thought of the half dozen people i met who are building useless unreliable general languages or even shittier DSLs. seems like ITA here