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'Strongly Typed' - The Jenkins (thejenkinscomic.wordpress.com)
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[-] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

Can someone help me understand this joke? Strongly typed languages generally have way better IDE support so this doesn’t make much sense to me at all

[-] junkthief 75 points 2 days ago

The joke is taking “strongly typed” literally- by applying too much “strength” (force) physically on the keys and breaking the keyboards

[-] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago

Hey guys I think I might be stupid. Good lord, wow.

[-] Tehhund@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

You and me both, I didn't get it at all.

[-] tamal3@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I feel stupid, too, but while I understood the part about strong=banging on the keys, but I have idea what a "strongly typed" language would be otherwise.

Edit: there is a helpful comment below. Thanks!

[-] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago

I thought it was because the protagonist isn't familiar with strongly typed languages so that he get frustrated so much and he breaks his keyboards to let the rage out.

[-] gjoel@programming.dev 14 points 2 days ago

You are typing strongly, which breaks your keyboard.

[-] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Theyre just bad at programming

[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 days ago

Turns out JS is strongly typed after all!

[-] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago

That's also why I love duck typing but don't find it practical. I can only have so much bread lying around.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Buy a Model-M and don't look back. Things are built tough.

Plus vintage models were designed for folks that coded in C/C++. So you know they're up to the task. ;)

[-] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The factory in Kentucky that used to make them was bought out by the employees when IBM stopped doing them and still makes new buckling-spring keyboards, so you can get new ones.

Called Unicomp.

https://www.pckeyboard.com/

They do have a nipple mouse variant ("EnduraPro") with mouse buttons. I have one, and I don't recommend that. The buckling spring keys are as good as the day I got it, but I eventually wore out the mouse buttons, and I've no idea whether they've moved to new switches for the mouse buttons.

[-] Aralakh@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks for sharing the link, you're a gem!

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Using CamelCase or snake_case?

[-] bloup@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

I personally think this comic would have been a lot funnier if it had no caption

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

just a drawing of a bunch of broken keyboards? how are you supposed to make the connection?

[-] bloup@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

Well, the title is “strongly typed”. Idk seems pretty obvious to me but maybe it isn’t

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

that's the title of the post, the image doesn't say it. and if it did it would've been a caption anyway

[-] bloup@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

It’s literally the title of the comic, like if you click the link, that’s what the title of the comic is.

this post was submitted on 10 May 2025
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