You know, just a few things JavaScript developers could laugh about before going back to fighting their bugs 😅
But the community loved it, and the comments made me realize that developers have an incredible talent for turning their daily struggles into comedy.
Then @sylwia-lask published her own take, You're a Real Software Developer Only If… and surprised me how much fun this kind of post can be.
I published You're a Real TypeScript Developer Only If..., and now I'm back for another round with Python.
They also have virtual environments, mysterious package conflicts, notebooks full of experiments, and that script that was supposed to take five minutes, but it became an entire project.
Then you started cleaning the data, filtering records, grouping results, and creating charts.
And restarting the kernel feels like playing Russian roulette with your entire afternoon.
And six months later, you still pause for a few moments whenever you write one of them.
But sometimes you just want to know why a three-line example works in the tutorial and fails in your project.
You could write something useful without spending half your day configuring a project.
Then you met asynchronous programming, dependency management, packaging, decorators, and type hints.
You can spend an entire afternoon fighting with dependencies, wondering why your notebook has forgotten every variable, or trying to understand an error that looks completely unrelated to your code.
Python developers, although this list ended up being longer than I expected, but I know it still is missing some classics.
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