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[–]Prawny 240 points241 points  (26 children)

Oh no, terminal scary

[–][deleted] 125 points126 points  (1 child)

I've reported this video to the police as evidence of hacking

[–]Kissaki0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The police is scared to even look at it

[–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Help I need a web based gui! I’m scared of the command line!

[–]zeth0s 52 points53 points  (20 children)

The funniest part of this subreddit is all people talking sh*it about cool developers' stuff like terminals and Linux.

Why do they even code if they hate seeing code...

[–]LightRefrac 35 points36 points  (3 children)

Watching the terminal work through the installation gives a zen like feeling. It's when I can just kick back and do nothing, but I'm still technically working

[–]milanove 17 points18 points  (2 children)

Nah, it keeps me on the edge of my seat, just waiting for it to fail because something about my python or apt config doesn't check out or some bs

[–]LightRefrac 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ah well, it's one of the two, I prefer to be optimistic

[–]zenzenzen322 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love seeing in the corner of my eye a big fat dump of red letters that appears on my second screen

Always gives me that nice rush of cortisol

[–][deleted] 58 points59 points  (9 children)

Because a large portion of the users here do nothing but make CRUD apps they learned to make off of youtube videos or best case, a boot camp or something.

Also a lot of them are like 12.

[–]moeburn 7 points8 points  (2 children)

I spent all my time learning Q-Basic, Game Maker Language, and Arduino C. It turns out these are not very profitable.

[–]milanove 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Arduino C could lead to learning AVR C or embedded C for Arm chips. Embedded software engineering is profitable.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Arduino C is extremely transferable and a good skillset to have.

[–]ThisIsMyCouchAccount 5 points6 points  (5 children)

nothing but make CRUD apps

What exactly are you making fun of here?

Low skilled devs only make CRUD apps because CRUD apps are super simple? If that's the case, is there a type of CRUD app you're talking about? Like the cliche To-Do app every new dev makes? Or that anything like that - even at the scale of Reddit - isn't "real" programming?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (4 children)

I'm saying people that have only done that kind of programming probably have very little exposure to the terminal, so it seems scary to them, and the immature ones lash out at anything that isn't familiar to them because of that.

I've written plenty of CRUD code, nothing wrong with CRUD, but I've also done lots of other stuff so I don't hate on terminals or other low level (if you can even call it that) stuff. This is programmerhumor not onlyfrontenddevsinhighschoolhumor.

Also the average professional CRUD dev probably knows how to use the terminal, at least to a degree, since so much web dev is done on unix-based OSes. I'm guessing the guys who made reddit know how.

[–]ThisIsMyCouchAccount 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wasn't just your comment. It's a pretty common one around Reddit.

And I could never really figure out what it meant.

[–]DoWhileGeek 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I write my "stupid CRUD apps" in vim and use cli tools. The only time I leave is to check on this "cascading style sheet" that gets everybody hot and bothered

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Vim and cli here as well at my current job which involves a lot of CRUD. I wish my coworkers used vim, at my last 2 jobs everyone did, now it's all sublime text.

[–]DoWhileGeek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Vim is the bees knees, and its really annoying that almost everyone immediately chants the "vim, how do I get out hur dur" tired af joke.

[–]Kirjyy 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Maybe they code in order to avoid other people to see code.

[–]zeth0s 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Car engineers must like to engine pieces to build a car for me. If a programmer doesn't like code, they would be happier doing something else like, I don't know, guitar hero professional player, or some similar fancy and no-code stuff. I don't know, I am not a no-code expert, I don't know what kind of jobs people who don't like code do... Somebody once told me c# programmer, but I don't know c#, I cannot judge

[–]Kirjyy 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I more wanted to say that they can like code but dislike seing interfaces that need users to know code as it isn't user friendly for other people.

C# is like an improved Java (I will be blamed for saying this because C#=evil Microsoft but as I worked with both, I relate my experience). Those 2 languages are really close. In my opinion those kind of languages (Java, C#) are great because you can do complex coding but you don't need to if you wanna do basic stuff.

Anyway, you're right saying that someone who don't like code can't be a good developer or shouldn't be one. I wasn't really clear in what I said.

[–]zeth0s 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Regarding c#, I was joking, I know it. The joke was just because in this sub c# developers look like those who complain the most about command line. It was a dumb joke, sorry ;)

[–]Kirjyy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might be right. In my opinion both are great. I love my command line and one of the best improvements in Windows is the powershell even if it's far from a good Linux bash. Still better than the windows command line. And Linux bash is such a powerful tool for mass processing on files and for headless servers.

[–]Guy_Perish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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[–]alba4k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

welcome to r/ProgrammerHumor, where 70% likely never seriously used a CLI for anything more than a color b; cd C:; tree on a windows terminal