I don't think there's an "in-group" of frat-bro programmers who actually talk like this in real life. Everyone I've met has just been doing it as a joke. At least, this seems very common in the Ruby/Rails community. There's a whole ton of weird gem names, and people just being silly in general [1]. And it's not a recent [2] thing [3], by any means.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbda1PpQmAk

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_...

(P.S. TIL about `$ fortune | cowsay -f head-in`. Hahaha I hadn't seen that before.)

I don't think it's an IRL issue really either. Recently there was that uber article. But in general I don't really see it or it's usually exaggerated.

People have been making jokes since the beginning of time.

> seen as off-putting towards non-bro people (specifically, women) who aren't in the "in-group"

Have you talked to anyone in a sorority? Its a fraternity for females and they share the same speech quirks.

>. It has nothing to do with insulting frats, just that particular language which is "frat-ish".

That's nice, do you also take offense to things like ebonics because they seem "black-ish"?

I think you're being unintentionally insensitive because you're blind to your own prejudice

I don't disagree with you, I'm just stating why people make those statements. I would go even further than just frats/sorities, that type language isn't uncommon with college aged people.

I'm not sure what you mean by your last statement. All I was saying is that I'm not trying to insult frats, it's just this language is associated with frats and its how people describe it. I don't think there's anything wrong with it, different groups will always have dialectical quirks like that.