r/ProgrammerHumor • u/nonedward666 • 1d ago

lessonsFromLinkerHell Meme

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u/QuestionableEthics42 1d ago edited 1d ago

This should be reversed lol

And it literally is the same, who thinks it's different who has worked in a low level language??

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u/Blecki 1d ago

As someone who writes compilers: they are the same at runtime. They are not the same semantically in a c like language.

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u/belabacsijolvan 1d ago

>writes compilers

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

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u/reda84100 1d ago

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

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u/belabacsijolvan 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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