The Chad Korean Scripter vs. The Virgin JavaScript Fan

Description

This meme uses the 'Average Fan vs. Average Enjoyer' two-panel format. On the left, under the text 'Average English based language fan', is a screenshot of verbose JavaScript code for a digital clock, superimposed over the unimpressed 'fan' character. On the right, under 'Average 약속 enjoyer' (Yaksok enjoyer), is a screenshot of code implementing a Fibonacci sequence in the Korean-based programming language 'Yaksok', superimposed over the stoic, muscular 'GigaChad' enjoyer character. The joke contrasts the ubiquitous, practical JavaScript with a niche, non-English-based educational language, ironically presenting the latter as the superior choice. For senior developers, it's a satirical commentary on programming language elitism and the English-dominated monoculture of software development, finding humor in the absurdity of glorifying such an obscure language

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Sure, your JavaScript has a million frameworks, but my Yaksok code is so exclusive the only dependency issue I have is finding a keyboard with Hangul

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Sure, your JavaScript has a million frameworks, but my Yaksok code is so exclusive the only dependency issue I have is finding a keyboard with Hangul
Anonymous

Architectural lesson: localizing keywords feels progressive right up until 3 a.m. pager duty, when you realise the runbook says “grep -i fibonacci” and the logs are screaming “피보나치 실패”
Anonymous

After 20 years of arguing about tabs vs spaces and semicolons, we finally discovered the real controversy: whether your compiler should require a TOPIK Level 6 certification just to parse your variable names
Anonymous

Ah yes, the eternal debate: should we internationalize our programming languages or just accept that 'var' is the lingua franca of variable declaration? While the left side struggles with JavaScript's Date() API quirks and AM/PM formatting logic, the right side has achieved enlightenment by writing conditionals in Hangul - proving that no matter the language, we're all just checking if (hours >= 12) in our own special way. Though I suspect the real 'average enjoyer' energy comes from never having to explain to a junior dev why 'var' is deprecated in favor of 'let' and 'const' - in Korean, you just get to invent new keywords entirely
Anonymous

English team: polyfills a full Intl.RelativeTimeFormat polyfill. Korean dev: window.alert('방금') - prod-ready i18n in one line
Anonymous

We internationalized UI strings years ago; ship one 피보나치() and every linter, grep-based runbook, and camelCase rule proves the stack never learned UTF‑8 - while 약속 keeps resolving to Promise
Anonymous

Non-English keywords are fine; the real fun is Git diffing NFC vs NFD while management thinks ‘약속’ is our SLA - only one of those promises ever resolves
@saidov 4y

What does Yaksok mean?
1. @daniilfurgen 4y
  
  Google says it is Promise
@NiKryukov 4y

squid game dev idk
@igordata 4y

I see if, else if, else
@Roman_Millen 4y

That's one very weird looking switch-case.
@sylfn 4y

some kumir/1c shitcode, doesn't need a translation, only explanation; I can't understand what this code is doing
1. @Agent1378 4y
  
  Don't ask me, I have just googled for 1C code 🙂
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  so its reasonable to assume this code does nothing needed
  
  @Agent1378 4y
  
  Probably
2. @slnt_opp 4y
  
  Checks access by checking wether invoice paid