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[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 35 points 1 week ago (5 children)

There are far more male programmers... As a programmer, be gay or stay alone... Choose!

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 6 days ago

It's odd in the Australian public service, with COBOL programmers. They've been in the job long enough that they started when the public service was the only employer who would employ women as programmers. I'm on the systems analyst side of the fence, the programmers I have worked with include a bit more than 60% women

I think all the programmers I know are married or gay or not interested. I think the gay ones are mostly married too.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh that explains why my wife is gay

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If she was around the same cs students as me then yeah

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

She sleeps with men, that's pretty gay

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

There are a lot of things she does but that aint one of them

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Think you forgot to check their username before commenting that haha

Thats a hell of a way to find out.

And clearly it worked!

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Can programmers only be with other programmers or am I missing something?

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Well yeah, obv. But not enough girls in computer science, so like the fishes, some of them magically turn into girls after a while.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"JSON parser 100% from scratch in Haskell in 110 lines" doesn't get you horny? I guess some people are just wired differently.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’m a programmer myself but my wife isn’t a programmer, that was my motivation for questioning.

Oh, is she, like, an EE or something? Maybe a web designer?

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Don't worry. I mean nothing but humour by it. I myself am married to a physicist who takes absolutely no interest whatsoever in programming, but can talk happily for ages about something weird they found.

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 11 points 1 week ago

But you kind of have to leave the house for that... I mean... We talk about programmers....

/s

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There are those who transition, so a significant chunk of that male programmer population is "male" as in quotation marks, only that some transition earlier than others. Does not guarantee that you can get the transgender autistic puppygirl (or other variations) of your dreams, since many of them are lesbians.

But also feel free to look outside your field for a partner. It's okay to date an artist as a programmer.

[–] andioop@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Feels weird reading this as the only single woman programmer in my friend group who likes men

[–] rucksack@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think programmer should be seen as a gender itself.

I'm currently transitioning myself, already have a homeserver and a Linux PC, can't wait to be a real programmer.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 week ago

I detransitioned from being a programmer and all I have is depression since, maybe I should retransission into being a programmer

[–] shoki@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and gender confirmation would not be getting called sir/ma'am at the starbucks but people asking you for IT help?

Just slurs, shouted angrily and incoherently whike they blame you for all the shit that was designed (by someone else) to not work.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

It's not gay if I'm wearing programming socks.