- your compiler was AI-complete and adversarial and hated you
- your compiler was also not bound by any hard rules and could emit undefined behavior at any time
- your job scheduling and orchestration system was AI-complete and adversarial and actively hated you
- your runtime library had 50 different incompatible canonical implementations and can only be run by being forked by publicly-elected officials who blindly merge patches from bad-faith lobbyists
- the IDE is Microsoft Word, and the linter is a summer associate on their tenth cup of coffee
- you will inevitably get a non-technical client who thinks that the more times you have "notwithstanding the foregoing" in your code the more you can call yourself Web Scale
- your compiler was AI-complete and adversarial and hated you
- your compiler was also not bound by any hard rules and could emit undefined behavior at any time
- your job scheduling and orchestration system was AI-complete and adversarial and actively hated you
- your runtime library had 50 different incompatible canonical implementations and can only be run by being forked by publicly-elected officials who blindly merge patches from bad-faith lobbyists
- the documentation for any of those 50 runtime libraries is paywalled per page behind https://pacer.uscourts.gov/pacer-pricing-how-fees-work if you're lucky
- the IDE is Microsoft Word, and the linter is a summer associate on their tenth cup of coffee
- you will inevitably get a non-technical client who thinks that the more times you have "notwithstanding the foregoing" in your code the more you can call yourself Web Scale