Nested Code Piece of Art

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A dark code editor screenshot shows an extremely long chain of nested closing braces and parentheses, with an else branch returning HTTP status 409. The joke is that absurdly complicated, over-nested code is presented as a “piece of art,” making it a relatable reaction for programmers seeing elegant-looking or disastrously tangled code.

• @profunctor_io / 9557 2023-12-07