The things he asks to do are the reasons why I find no joy anymore working in coding. Hammering my thumbs seems to be more interesting than doing most of these actions. I swear, I got so bored I couldn’t finish the read. Specifically “if you find yourself commenting on every line of code” the right thing to do is to setup a meeting with te hiring department.
I’d say it suggests it’s “legally” the wrong thing to do.
Lol I feel so old reading these replies… I learnt copying BASIC games from magazines and typing them manually on the computer.
But jokes apart, when it comes to learning, I think the best thing is to tinker with weather language you choose and don’t worry about making the “right choices” since the start. Forget about writing “pythonic” code and don’t worry about being “idiomatic”: just build something. Building good software is not just constructs, but also knowning which subsystem to improve and when. That’s what makes experience.
When it comes to improving, you can dig deep into the language.
Yeah, this is also useful when learning a new programming language, even when you are an experienced coder, already.
Ofc I knew! Yeah, (neo)vim takes time to adjust. Personally I only use a bunch of commands, never bothered with the advanced stuff.
Personally, I mostly use neovim, both at home and at work. My reasons are:
I can’t not upvote someone who brings Clipper to the table :)
“intuitive” is extremely subjective, and based on your past experiences. I’ve coded in C++ for years, and some Python, too and was able to grasp many Rust concepts very quickly, while for others I struggled (and still am). I’d say that if you are looking for “intuitive”, Rust ain’t it. It’s a system language, so it requires planning, it’s definitely not the ideal language to slap a prototype quickly together, expecially as a beginner.
It competes with C, so in 2023 this basically means embedded systems. It offers executable size of few KB and out-of-the-box cross-platform compilation. It’s a modern C, basically, and it claims to be even faster than C as some language rules allow more optimizations
My understanding is that this is possible: you should be able to take a C project, add a build.zig file and under the hood the system is calling clang to compile the C project. HOWEVER, you can now add a .zig source file, compile that in zig and link together with the output of the C compiler into an executable. If this is actually true, I can definitely see the attractiveness of the language.
I wouldn’t say it’s a new LinkedIn, but it’s definitely a defacto monopolio. It pains be that Cargo (the official rust packaging system) is so integrated with it. My own personal hobby projects are self-hosted on a gittea instance right now, but I still have a github account to contribute to a friend of mine’s project which is, sadly, hosted there.
I second this game. The cat can also find a mate abd have kittens
I used to love IDEs with immediate feedback on the code, and a modern VSCode setup can really shine in this regards. But these days I’m going for a minimalistic approach where I don’t want to see anything in my screen but the code. I use Neovim and while I use plugins for formatting code on save, my screen is absolutely code only. No linting hints, no function definition appearing when I hover thr mouse, nothing at all. It’s far less distracting and you also feel much less constrained, even if I unconsciously already write the code in a way that the linter doesn’t complain (too much) later. I haven’t noticed any drop in my productivity in the last year I’ve been doing this.
Oh man, I hate code reviews with the strength of a thousand suns. In the enterprise world, there are so many constraints and conventions that reading other people code is even more boring than it should be. It’s even worse when you LGTM it and your colleagues “accuse” you of not having read it with attention because “I can’t believe you don’t have any comment on my code”.
It would be just a matter of time before they can distinguish between good and bad data; there are already AI that can do just that. I’d like to do something like that on GitHub though:P