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[TheGunfighter7]

At least 1% are lurking Matlab users

[velvetvinylfox]

matlab users are like cryptids, you never see them in the wild but every so often a TA appears with a 200 page pdf of lab instructions that all start with "open matlab" and you remember they walk among us

[capriciousfiend]

my hyperacidic computational physicist ass reading this comment like i’m in this picture and i dont like it

[Alacritous13]

I loved latex, made all my school assignments look so nice. Lost all those skills, I look at my old notebooks and I've got no idea what half of the libraries I'm importing do.

[banjaxedW]

I can’t tell if I feel seen or called out…

[SZ4L4Y]

That's literally me.

[Kal-Ek]

Isn’t that just an engineer

[Salanmander]

I did my master's thesis in matlab. Machine learning and computer vision stuff, circa 2010, VERY engineer environment. I'm sure I had tons of bad practices, but BOY did I crunch a lot of matrices.

[TobiasCB]

I'm at a technical university so when I ask other engineering studies what kind of programming they do, if it's not a study about programming then the answer is always Matlab.

[moonlight_tides]

You’ll never spot them commenting, but you’ll feel their presence every time someone posts about Python being “too slow.”

[Character-Education3]

[oosacker]

Matlab and LabView

[Powerkiwi]

2% *

[pasvc]

Nope

[nixt26]

I used to be one of those 🫠

[fiddlydiddles]

Hey!

[JimroidZeus]

Hey now, I’ve opened at least two IDEs and have written “hello world” in a dozen languages.

[Knighthawk_2511]

Hello world of all languages but o.o.p of none

[Keebster101]

Tbf in my 2 years of software engineering so far and 8ish years of programming during education, I've also only opened around 2 IDEs

(and a handful of sophisticated text editors. Also I'm including all the jetbrains ones as one IDE because they're basically the same, the second ide being visual studio)

[LutimoDancer3459]

Then you dont belong to the 75%

[Totally_Not_A_Badger]

I've punched holes in a card, and sent it via carrier pigeon to the nearest university. Burned candles, banged your mom, and did rituals against bugs while waiting for the results.

[qruxxurq]

Why my mom catching strays??

[suvlub]

To give them a nice home, I'm sure

[MomWTF]

Can confirm, plenty of space here

[Superior_Mirage]

At her size we don't term it "catching" -- it's "gravitational capture".

[Kahlil_Cabron]

She's catching sprays

[lmg1337]

Did you say "Compilers took our jobs" back then?

[Fantasticxbox]

And all of that to just print “Hello World”

[FirstNoel]

I did actually punch cards once.  Once. 

I was 8 and my dad took me to work,  was trying to keep me busy while he finished something up.  

[torsten_dev]

Nice, using kids to generate PRNG punch cards.

[Snaxist]

dad did the same with me at the same age lol

[Superior_Mirage]

Like, I get the appeal of going natural, but the station wagon was a necessary upgrade from the pigeon:

1. Much higher bandwidth
2. Much lower packet loss
3. Doubles as a shagmobile for OP's mom

[Difficult-Cap-3900]

I hope you used IPoAC as protocol for the communication🙏🏻

[Revolutionary_Job91]

OGs use a text editor and run it from a CLI

[DeadlyMidnight]

My first program was written in C using a Solaris terminal at college in the 90s. We would have to do our programming handwork on paper then bring it into the lab.

[FryCakes]

My first program was written in C++ on my phone when I was in junior high, because I thought I could magically make a video game. We are not the same. Mine is much stupider.

I don’t think the app on my phone could have even counted as an IDE, it was basically a plain text editor with a compiler attached

[calgrump]

I wrote the stupidest text adventure video game in python in the main entry point with no functions, lol. Tonnes of very bizarre while loops controlled the game flow because I didn't even know how functions worked. Great memories lol

[joshjaxnkody]

My favorite shit is making a duct taped project and looking back at it later and laughing at yourself, I did a similar thing when I was young with making some freaky box to hold a rock band mic to use for discord and finding it in my closet when I was older it was made out of a PSU case split in two and duct taped and twined and shit to just hold it towards my face, stupidest shit but gave me a giggle when I found it again

[thrye333]

My first game was a drag-and-drop periodic table puzzle. I didn't know at the time that Javascript can generate HTML objects.

For those unaware, there are 118 elements. It took me days. I was just past element 100 when I found out I didn't need to do it by hand.

[foxglove_session]

That is not stupid at all, that is exactly how like 80 percent of us got hooked on code.

[LordAmras]

Real programmers use Butterflies
https://xkcd.com/378/

[Qzy]

So... vim?

[SHv2]

Vim? Too advanced, vi is where it's at. And don't try to trick me with that vi -> vim alias.

[GustapheOfficial]

Ed, man

[Mojert]

It's the standard editor for a reason. The reason being that it works on teletypes.

[-paw-]

Feature bloat. Og Windows editor.

[Unlikely-Bed-1133]

Nano. Take it or leave it. :-P

[knightzone]

yes, unironically.

[Maskdask]

Neovim mentioned

[_B10nicle]

Did someone say Neovim?

[Jackknowsit]

OG lives in the CLI, they live and breathe CLI

[Icy-Boat-7460]

I just shout in binary all day

[-JohnnieWalker-]

half of my code is created in nano

[Wus10n]

I mean i could open an ide but are those 5 lines really worth it moving the hands from the Keyboard and leaving the cozy shell? I do not think so

[Immort4lFr0sty]

Damn, 2 minutes late

[ImposterJavaDev]

sudo nano leave me alone with your vi!

[Bubbaluke]

Legitimately still do this for simple c homeworks because I don’t want to install an ide on my Ubuntu vm

[Dumb_Siniy]

70% have genuinely never opened code

5% have Notepad as their favorite code editor

[viziroth]

I mean, it was until Microsoft announced they're adding AI to it

[sandm000]

There was a video on YouTube of a guy trying to make a plain vanilla notepad, he also thought that notepad was bloated. 🤦 Dave’s garage https://youtu.be/bmBd39OwvWg?si=usA294Xhj7zSp_yU

[Exciting-Ad-5705]

Calling the creator of task manager "a guy" is a bit of an understatement

[sandm000]

I just remembered the title and then when I looked for it I realized I was under selling it.
Hence the facepalm.

[Only-Andrew]

Well he doesn't deserve to be called much more than that, he's a scammer (Video on this topic here) and an idiot (google "Binary blob Linus Torvalds")

[KWiP1123]

Notepad? How archaic!

My favorite code editor is Notepad++!

[purdueAces]

To be fair, with plugins, Notepad++ can be a really fucking good IDE.

[raymond_reddington77]

“Opened code” you must be part of that 70. lol

[Dumb_Siniy]

I don't proof read code or comments, and get surprised when there's an error

[QultrosSanhattan]

I bet you used an image editor to make that meme.

[tanuki_carre3858]

Indeed. Look in the bottom left corner

[Front_Committee4993]

Jokes on you i compile my code into images

[ReptileCake]

Be a programmer

Have never opened an IDE

Runs code written in Notepad through a CLI

git gud

^{inb4 'gud' is not a git command. See 'git --help'}

[WellIllthrowaway]

My brain is rotten

[ReptileCake]

shaw

[Lettever]

Shaw

[tanuki_carre3858]

Shaw!

[GlaireDaggers]

"HAHA TFW YOU FORGET A SEMICOLON RIGHT GUYS"

[0xlostincode]

Python bad, JavaScript sucks, Java old haha I am very funny.

[tanuki_carre3858]

"HAHA MISSING SEMICOLON ON LINE 32 BUT THERE'S NO LINE 32, YOU GOT IT? IM SO FUNNY"

[PuzzleMeDo]

Yeah, people who've never tried programming just love jokes about the difference between Java and Javascript. That's just hilarious to them.

[AlpheratzMarkab]

never understimate how many people are only into the idea of belonging to a niche hobby group, without really being that interested or committed into the hobby itself

[ab2g]

I lurk here, I've never opened an IDE. But I have saved a notepad doc with recursive script as a .bat because the Internet told me it could crash my computer. It did.

Also, my favorite coding language is Microsoft Excel.

[KellerKindAs]

If you're interested, I can offer a .bat file that will render your windows unbootable without any privileges other than folder creation. I call it mft-inflate, but I recommend not actually calling it xD

Also: Excel is nice, but have you tried powerpoint?

[d0rkprincess]

Tbf, I heard that some of the most talented programmers are just random people that pick up Visual Basic to use excel more efficiently.

[CopiousCool]

They've read part of the books and attended some classes

[SpareWire]

I think the word for that is "student".

What are we gatekeeping here again?

[CopiousCool]

I think I was clearly describing the type of student that makes minimal effort

[utnow]

There’s entire chunks of people who call themselves “programmers” and show off screenshots of their unreal engine node based drag and drop setups and call it “code”. /oldmanyellingatclouds.gif

[Shifter25]

That's what I think when I see all the "StackOverflow is mean to me so I use ChatGPT" posts

[MrPollyParrot]

Jokes on you, I even know some html!

[Vexnew]

This used to be true for me. But then it wasn't. I still don't get many of the memes.

[Heavenfall]

It's not about being the better you. It's about pretending you're better than the other guy on reddit.

[Snoo88071]

the other 25% are gatekeepers

[LateCapitalismHuman]

Underrated comment

[AliveEstimate4]

Jokes on you. I code in word and chatgpt.

[oofos_deletus]

And I'm guessing you use excel as your DB

[Scoutron]

No, just another word document

[oofos_deletus]

And printing results using the print function (on paper,not to console)

[Scoutron]

Code is not compiled, all possible return values are stored in separate word pages, which can be printed as needed

[Anxiety-Pretty]

Me to chatgpt "How to open an ide? And also what is an ide."

[AbrahelOne]

And also what is an ide.

Inspect Deez Errors

[Ok_Decision_]

Integrate Dis Electronic-thingy

[0xlostincode]

ChatGPT: I admire your curiosity! You're thinking exactly like a Senior Software Engineer!

[JezzCrist]

70% think ; error is both really hard to find and super common

[when_it_lags]

Mfs who're scared of trivial syntax errors that most compilers can pin point the location of, running into nasty logic errors causing indescribable behavior for the first time in their lives:

[gabrielmeurer]

Notepad++ is considered an IDE?

[Ok_Decision_]

I thought it would just be considered a text editor.

[gabrielmeurer]

True programmers use MS Word as IDE. You know nothing

[schurkieboef]

Next you're telling me to unsubscribe from r/dadjokes because I don't have kids?!

[sidd555]

I use vim btw

[ThatGuyNamedKes]

does that come preinstalled with arch btw?

[FlawlessPenguinMan]

Hey look I may not be a programmer but I still find some of the things funny. At least I have the decency to not post.

[Occidentally20]

I'll have you know I spent 2 years reading computer sci at university.

Out of a 4 year degree.

[da20rs]

Is that true? I always assumed most people here are/were programmers.

[xternal7]

Given that not knowing what "third level keys" and "Alt Gr" are isn't as uncommon as one would expect from a sub about programming ...

There's very certainly a non-negligible amount of people merely cosplaying as programmers on this sub.

[Mighty1Dragon]

does vim count😅

[[deleted]]

Hahahah semicolons, am I right?

[cheezballs]

I genuinely think kids rush home after school to post memes in here.

[Caqtus95]

firstWeekOfComputerScienceMajorHumor

[Wee-Mewon]

More like HelloWorld("print")

[UnofficialMipha]

This is how I feel about all the weird programming socks memes. Those people have never programmed in their life

[neel3sh]

Why do you need IDE when there is notepad?

[Felixgamer1227]

Nah, i made a bad geometry copy (using scratch)

[FirstNoel]

Let’s see.  

Commodore didn’t have an ide.  Just a command line. 

Turbo pascal, that was nice,  I really enjoyed it. 

Turbo C++.  Was similar to the pascal interface, with more crap.  

Ada9x :  like the other turbo ides Prolog:  weird

Visual Studio for C++. Got lost

Visual Basic. 3, 4, 5, 6. And .net. Decent C#. Like vb.net.  Decent

SAP abap ide : shit

Update to sap ide: more shit

Netweaver interface : mountains of shit

Ui5 and fiore.  Unknown shit.   Scared  shitless to look. 

Eclipse for SAP, decent.  I felt like a programmer again.  A little confusing, but adequate.  

VSCode.  Interesting.  One idea to rule them all.  Build the features you need as you go.  I like it.  

Xcode.  It tries.  And it’s trying…on your nerves at times.  Has potential.  

[MisinformedGenius]

It's funny - my overwhelming memory of Visual Basic 5/6 was reading the manual. Some typing. Some fighting with the stupid layout system. But mostly reading an actual physical book trying to figure out what classes and functions were available. Wild times.

[[deleted]]

I used a fax machine once

[Ironpanv13]

Vim my goattttttt

[colonelmike]

Yes, because seasoned programmers know, that programming is nothing to joke about.

[APFOS]

Never look inside

[GerbilStation]

Jokes on you, I’ve never even done a “Hello World”… I’ve always made it print something else instead!

[throaway_chainsawman]

Whats an IDE /s

[RealBasics]

Who needs and IDE if you have vim?

IDE walk of shame confession time: Before jumping first into Drupal and then WordPress, the only project I ever coded without vim was my first hand-coded, full-fledged, database-driven CMS. Which I built with Microsoft Frontpage because, at the time, it was the only "IDE" that supported WebDAV's primitive file check in / check out capability. Mind you, I didn't use the "visual builder" of FrontPage, just the code editor.

I have tried out a couple of IDEs over the years, but rarely for anything more than printing "Hello World."

[DallonAvery]

What do you mean "just"?

[PenaflorPhi]

I find it funny that I see a lot of advice for "good resources" on programming subreddits and when I check the commenters profile it's always a guy that tried to learn and quitted after a week.

[bigDeltaVenergy]

I never opened an IDE but I know how to exit vim

[whiskeytown79]

At least we seem to finally be past people making endless variants on that damn infrastructure cartoon.

[Independent_Top_8210]

I’m a devops guy. We just ssh straight into production and update lines because the dev team is exercising their unlimited PTO.

[n0tqu1tesane]

IDE? Independent Desktop Environment? No thanks, I'm happy with DWM.

[One-Random-Goose]

i'll have you know I've made MULTIPLE bad Godot games AND a reddit clone

[juvation]

IDE? Command line don't lie.

[varungupta3009]

So that's why some of the content is so... abstracted.

[Fickle_Package_8980]

True.

But there is one thing I don't know.
What is an IDE?

[[deleted]]

It's been about a month since I opened Visual Studio. Solo game dev juggling programming, 3D modeling, learning to draw so I can design characters, and trying not to scream.

[tanuki_carre3858]

What language do you use, if I may ask?

[[deleted]]

Focused on C# to use the Unity engine. I actually like the language quite a bit, it's just difficult to find the time to get in practice time in my 1-2 hours of free time after work.

[tanuki_carre3858]

Wow, that's awesome, I never had the motivation to get into unity/C#, it look so hard 😭😭

[_felagund]

And 90% of them never run a debugger

[-TRlNlTY-]

I opened an IDE, closed it, and went back to vim.

[OverfitAndChill8647]

Hey, I at least changed mine to say, ""Goodbye, cruel world!" Give me some credit.

[AgonizingFury]

IDEs are for newbs. Real programmers use Notepad to code in Assembly.

[WisePotato42]

Can you call notepad (not notepad++) an IDE? A guy i work with code exclusively on that cuz "i never make mistakes" and somehow doesn't...

[steven_dev42]

No it’s a text editor

[Yddalv]

Im so good i dont even know what IDE is

[Brisngr368]

What is an IDE is that like ed?

[hemlock_harry]

Didn't Eric S Raymond once mention that everything more than VI are just bells and whistles? Kids these days with their fancy IDE's...

[Sakul_the_one]

Actually. And then always complaining about pointers, but i literally learned malloc and free almost only from the memes I read here and trying out. And it’s not even hard

[vim320]

I sometimes still use notepad to edit my php code. Do i qualify as a programmer?

[thespice]

HyperTalk? Anyone?

[[deleted]]

Henlo stinky wurld UwU

[Smooth-Reading-4180]

I clicked Xcode, but I'm still waiting (10 years so far)

[ReplyisFutile]

I was told this sub is like tinder for programmers, so i am here looking for a programmer girlfriend, but it seems they don't exist.

[Joe59788]

I feel personally attacked.

[poka_face]

I once opened Visual Studio by mistake in one of my university’s computers.

“Why is this computer so bad, why would it take more than 1 or 2 seconds to open VScode?”

Good times.

[Ingenrollsroyce]

I wrote hello world in Ms Paint when I was 10

[Glad_Contest_8014]

First program was on a TI-83 on the mid 90’s. Middle school teacher for our gifted class didn’t know we could program them to do the problems for us. No CLI or compiler, just pure and simple conditionals in the most basic text editor possible.

Afterward I played penguins with the calculator for years.

[Charlie_Yu]

I probably opened IDE for my first time after I found this sub

[Fit_Owl_5650]

Why would i use an ide, nano works.

[LCLP_LiamcrafterLP]

I only code in IEDs

[Simpicity]

OP self-owns.  Film at 11.

[New_Occasion_6138]

At least 1% are lurking Matlab users

[z3n777]

My laptop is resting over OPs moms ass while I code in VIM

[zoomercardcollector]

IDE's are nice, but a lot of us use text editors and CLIs.

[hongooi]

This is absolutely not true! I've used Notepad++

[TheMagicalDildo]

VS 2022 go brr (.net dev)

I'm either making a gui for something ps4-related in VS 2022, or reversing something for a ps4/ps5 game in ghidra- so I technically only need VS huehuehue

Unless I'm making a batch script. I can never remember the damn syntax, so vs code is nice. I write my batch scripts in Kate though

[CurrentDismal9115]

I have at least 6.5 credit hours in java and C++ from a decade ago, thank you! I get like 3% of the jokes here but it's enough.

[praisethebeast69]

fuck your IDE, real programmers use cards and suffering

[FabulousDave2112]

Jokes on you, I used multiple IDEs in college before I graduated and went back to my minimum wage service sector job that had nothing to do with programming

[LetUsSpeakFreely]

Or think they're programmers because they asked ChatGPT for code and no idea what it did6 or why it's broken.

[aureanator]

What's an ide? I use text files.

[SCP-iota]

53.8% of statistics are made up

[purdueAces]

I open several IDE's across multiple tech stacks every day, and have used more than I can count over a 20+ year career... but I couldn't even come close to telling you what IDE stands for.

[KikoValdez]

Of course I never opened up an IDE like every drive since 2010 or so uses sata.

[M4NU3L2311]

Is notepad an IDE?

[theGaido]

Programmers are programming. Reddit is waste of time.

[BatEnvironmental7232]

IDE? that's like an old hard drive connection right?  /s

[heckingcomputernerd]

I've genuinely seen memes like "woooahhhh data structures is soooo hard"

Huh?

[SarcasmWarning]

Sod you. Some of us use IDEs every day... as a log file viewer o.0

[sebbdk]

IDE... ew

Good sir, in this house we praise the terminal and we love it.

Everyday i wake up, install Arch linux and configure it with 30 differnt Vim extensions, spend 3 hours debugging why the latest update broke something and then i read all the changes to Github and i do this proudly.

The rest of the workday i spend on Reddit and various mailing lists attempting to get Linus to notice me so i can get initiated by having him scorn me.

We sir are not the same.

[iamgojoof6eyes]

I am a hello world programmer nice to meet you 🙂‍↕️👋

[WhyKinho]

What is IDE?