When Dorothy Asks About Your Esoteric Language Choices

Description

A two-panel meme featuring a still image of Dorothy from 'The Wizard of Oz' looking concerned. The top panel has a caption overlaid on the image that reads, 'What would you do with a brain if you had one?'. The bottom panel is a solid block of white text on a black background, displaying a large snippet of code written in the esoteric programming language Brainfuck. The code consists entirely of the characters '+', '-', '[', ']', '<', '>', '.', and ','. This meme humorously juxtaposes a famous, straightforward question about intelligence with an example of one of the most notoriously difficult and impractical programming languages ever created. The technical joke is aimed at developers who appreciate the absurdity of esoteric languages. It implies that inventing or using Brainfuck is a perplexing, albeit clever, use of mental faculties, resonating with senior engineers who have seen various forms of 'clever' but impractical code in their careers

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Using Brainfuck is the intellectual equivalent of building a ship in a bottle, but the bottle is also on fire and you're inside it

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Using Brainfuck is the intellectual equivalent of building a ship in a bottle, but the bottle is also on fire and you're inside it
Anonymous

Dorothy, that wall of +-<>[] is our “simplified” data plane POC - eight instructions, 30 000 cells, zero comments; because after 20 years the real senior skill isn’t writing code, it’s making everyone else too scared to refactor it
Anonymous

Enterprise innovation: ship the business rules as Brainfuck inside YAML, call it a “declarative policy engine,” and enjoy zero change requests because nobody dares touch it
Anonymous

Legacy COBOL? Adorable. This is minified React hooks nested 17 deep with tree-shaking amnesia
Anonymous

Answer: allocate 30,000 cells, move a pointer frantically, and call it maintainable because it’s Turing‑complete
Deleted Account 4y

brainfuck
Θώθ 4y

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
@paul_thunder 4y

oh..
@dsmagikswsa 4y

What is the code mean from brainfuck?
@bashiordache 4y

Lol
@Nufunello 4y

Stop using python
1. Deleted Account 4y
  
  Python is a very easy language to learn, but only suitable for writing AI and mobile applications.
  
  @Nufunello 4y
  
  Yeah, that's what I mean. You actually don't need brain to make something with it, but unfortunately because of it performance goes down with every line of even trivial code. It's like Scratch on steroids
  
  @p4vook 4y
  
  wut
  
  @Nufunello 4y
  
  W o r d s - words, do you know what it is?
  
  @p4vook 4y
  
  wut