How to cut a cake with various tech

• You build a robust, accurate user experience to cut cake. But then you realize that knifes are not supported in most browsers.
• You cut yourself.

• You try to cut the cake, but by the time you position the knife, the cake has moved into your face. You realize that you need Adobe Flash to cut cake.

• You cut a triangle in your cake with nothing more than a small penknife, but you realize that to make it look convincing, you need to be using Dreamweaver.

• It is easy to cut cake with Git, but also easy to revert to a previous cake and merge it with your current frosting.

Shell

• ~$ ls
• cake.c cake.h cake.o frosting.c frosting.o
• ~$ rm * .o
• rm: .o: No such file or directory
• ~$ ls
• ~$
• You don't remember any syntax and spend 5 hours reading man pages. Then you give up and cut the computer

XML

• You can't actually cut the cake; all you can do is describe the knife in painful detail.

Node.js

• The cake and knife are available, but they use callbacks. You install packages for them, but the knife is too heavy. Frustrated, you rewrite Node.js.
• You write the knife, using 13 other libraries. But this bloats the knife, and you can't lift it. You get frustrated and kick the cake and cut it yourself. Considering this a success, you blog about your experience of being able to cut cake without even using a knife!

Angular

• You spend hours learning Angular, and when you are done you are so happy you forget about cutting cake.
• You absolutely mutilate the cake

jQuery

• You cut cake. You are now an expert on JavaScript.

Svelte

• Since the only instruction is to cut cake, the Svelte compiler hyperoptimizes your code so that it only shaves off a small part of the cake

React

• You manage to get rid of this, which was stopping you from cutting cake, but then you face a closure.

Vim

• You cut cake, but you can't quit.
• "cake" is falsy, so you can't cut it

VSCode

• You type cake, but VSCode autocompletes to hasUncaughtExceptionCaptureCallback. The next time you try, it autocompletes to REGEX_SPECIAL_CHAR_BACKREF

Assembly

• You try to cut cake, but then you realize you need to invent the cake, the knife, the oven needed to cook cake, and your hand

BASIC

• POINT KNIFE at CAKE, then MOVE DOWN 45px, then MOVE UP 45px, then ROTATE KNIFE.HANDLE, then MOVE DOWN 45px, then MOVE UP 45px.