Junior Software Engineers Make a Wish

Junior software eng are essentially make-a-wish kids at this point. There’s a 0.1% chance you’ve got more than 18 months left, go ahead and re-write that service in Rust. Have a blast ❤️

A dark-mode social media post jokes that junior software engineers are like terminally ill children from the Make-A-Wish Foundation because their codebase may be replaced or abandoned within 18 months. The punchline is that rewriting a service in Rust is portrayed as an ambitious, possibly pointless project undertaken near the end of its short life. It is shared as a sarcastic reaction to software engineering optimism, rewrites, and Rust hype. EN: A dark-mode social media post jokes that junior software engineers are like terminally ill children from the Make-A-Wish Foundation because their codebase may be replaced or abandoned within 18 months. The punchline is that rewriting a service in Rust is portrayed as an ambitious, possibly pointless project undertaken near the end of its short life. It is shared as a sarcastic reaction to software engineering optimism, rewrites, and Rust hype.

• @gentoomemes / 14984 2024-11-28