WTF
phrase
- expresses surprise, disbelief, or confusion in response to a shocking or absurd situation or statement
Wiktionary
name
Etymology: (programming slang): Originated on The Daily WTF, a humorous blog dealing with real-world examples of bad programming.
- Initialism of World Taekwondo Federation.
“Likewise the WTF says they are the official Tae Kwon Do organization because […]”
“The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognizes WTF at its 83rd […]”
noun
Etymology: (programming slang): Originated on The Daily WTF, a humorous blog dealing with real-world examples of bad programming.
- Initialism of White's tree frog.
- A bafflingly bad or unwise design decision.
“I think coercing numbers to booleans is a WTF - 0 should not be evaluatable as a boolean, it should be a type mismatch.”
“React attempts to wrap the browser DOM API and it's conventions in a way that's (for people who use it) easier to reason about, that's kind of like saying Anvil is a WTF because it wraps Vulcan”
phrase
- Alternative letter-case form of WTF.