You poor soul.

clicks scrollbar with mouse and drags it, instead of using the scroll wheel

Sounds like they are the product owner :)

With physics, but paused while coding. It only comes crashing down when the code gets executed.

The solution is obviously to replace the mods by bots, to fight other bots.

Battle bots, but virtual XD

import codegolf
codegolf.challenge1() 

300 nested if statements, (...) added another 5000 nested if statements.

At this point I want to doubt that they actually wrote it themselves, vs writing a metaprogram to generate the code.

We can add caching so numbers that have been checked once can be quickly looked up from an inMemory database.

Assembly would be lower. You have more complex / direct instructions in assembly. Brain fuck is pretty much just a pure turing machine, and has 8 instructions.

X86 has ~ 1000 + variants. Even ARM with a smaller instruction set has 232 instructions.

In brain fuck to set a number you'd have to count up (or down - underflow) to that number. In assembly you just set it.

Somewhere I've read that current assembly code with Makros should be similar to writing C.

Make those changes in an own commit, or keep it to files you already have to touch.

Creating an array of the function calls, and joining those seems more readable in that case.

Plus you don't have to take care that you use the correct number of placeholders.

"too many comments".

That's the problem. It will confidently give you an correct sounding answer.

If it is actually true is a different topic. So don't just blindly trust it. Verify, or at least sanity check it.

thanks to wasm any language is a browser running language.

Theoretically yes, practically you may have to deliver a whole runtime depending on the languagey making websites even bigger and slower to load initially. And unless it's a webapp with data processing on the client the perceived performance benefits may be negligible.

Maybe they see OP as the best candidate for an audit or code review, who has good enough skills, has time available, and is an internal resource

pleasure of refactoring this mess took half an hour to understand

If you can use any of the jetBrains IDE it can rewrite it to if/else with a few clicks (or [alt] +[return])

Tilted 22 degree to maximize the potential line length that can be displayed.

https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20211203-ideal-monitor-rotation-for-programmers/

Maybe not straight...

Why is marketing telling that dark is the new light? They can't sell anything that way.

You should upgrade to a WLAN AI powered IOT SMART RGB LED you can control with their smartphone app from anywhere in the world.

Apparantly being a full stack dev now includes fixing marketing too...

Maybe also bias by the number / experience of people using it.

1st semester students getting shocked by public static void main(String args) and meming it on the internet.

Go on the other hand likely isn't a common choice / option for a first language.

Why are you in programming related communities if you don't enjoy it?