[Joke] How To Travel To A Programming Language

As software engineers, we've travelled through many different languages and frameworks. My personal journey has taken me from the orderly landscapes of Golang to the garbage dumps of jquery (sorry I'm a backend person).

But what if – and bear with me for a second here ... 🤔 What if, our travels were not just metaphorical, but literal ✨??!!

I wonder how that can happen, programming languages are in a different realm of existence after all.

One day in late 2022 I was looking at the map, and – wait a second, what's this?!!

QUICK, ZOOM IN, LOWER LEFT THIRD

enhance ....

ENHAANCE ......

Java, is that you?

Turns out you can actually travel to a programming language. Well, maybe not all of them, but you can at least travel to Java 🤷‍♂️ It's an [extremely big] island in Indonesia!

I had to find out the deal is with this so I packed my bag and headed to the airport (while still being confused of-course)

After a bunch of layovers, I finally landed in Jakarta which is on the island of Java. Surprisingly, no NullPointerException so far so I asked myself, Did I really just travel to a programming language?

Until it finally hit me, I DID just travel to a programming language and I did it for the memes so that you don't have to!

✅ life achievement unlocked

What Happens Next

I catch another flight to Bali where my friend and I were really going but get sick on the way. In Bali, my sickness gets more serious and I spend my time at the hotel with a fever. The end 😌.

(but at least I can still claim bragging rights that I travelled to a programming language – BRAGGING RIGHTS RESERVED, 2022)

What I learnt

I learnt the harsh truth that Java makes you sick one way or the other, stay away.