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Developer jokes his Java app is full of carrots

Original: I know the word “caret” is, like, French and stuff, but I find it much more amusing to imagine that my # Java Swing app

A programmer joked online that they prefer to imagine the carets in their Java Swing application are actually carrots, playing on the similar-sounding words. The quip, tagged as a shitpost, amused other developers in programming circles and picked up a small wave of engagement.

Why now: A silly wordplay joke about caret versus carrot resonated with programmers.

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