Lemuel Boyce ๐ฅ @rhymiz@octodon.social
Software Engineer & Entrepreneur.
If I can use "lit" to describe how awesome something is, I will.
@Juliana Eita porra!
Road trip to Nantucket for the weekend!
lifehack: if you say "I'll be right back" as you leave a room, you can say "as the prophecy foretold" when you re-enter
Ah, this is your chance! *evil laugh*
I think Rust is a little easier to wrap your head around than C, at least, for someone who hasn't done any kind of work in C.
There is a learning curve, but it's not too bad. In my opinion, of course.
@butlermatt That makes sense. I've seen people take that approach before. Result is usually 50/50.
@butlermatt
I think you'd be much happier using Rust as a C replacement (if that's your plan).
@butlermatt
Totally forgot to add Javascript to that list.
Go is very, very fast. We make our Go services work pretty hard.
Mind providing a link to the org/repo on Github?
@butlermatt Nice! We use Go, Ruby, Scala, Java, Python and Elixer at my job.
@butlermatt you're a Rust developer!! That's so awesome! I've been trying to figure out a side project so I could get some exposure to Rust.
@butlermatt @starbreaker @Siphonay
I'm all about the entrepreneurial life. Most of the learning I have done in my career was from throwing myself into the deep (going after clients I wasn't qualified to do business with) and trying to figure things out as I go.
Also, I'm an advocate for developing the tech industry in the Caribbean and South America, where I was born and raised. So, we probably also have different motivation for our decisions.
@starbreaker @Siphonay To be fair, I'm the opposite. I moved from DevOps where I started to loathe going into work, to full time programmer which I've always been passionate about, and I love it. Going on 3 years ago I changed and I've advanced quickly and now work from home and love what I do and the company and industry I'm in.
I intend on retiring before 35, so, I guess development helps me with saving up to support that ambitious goal.
@Siphonay I switched from being an IT guy (VoIP and Network Engineer) to software development. Best decision ever.
@m3talsmith
I switched from Windows 10 to Ubuntu, because web application development is less painful for my usecases.
I work with Django and Rails every day.
@m3talsmith No hate for Microsoft here. I like the company, I just don't like their browser solutions.
Don't get me wrong, Edge is better than IE in many ways.
It is also more lightweight than Chrome, which is a INSANE CPU hog. Firefox has some kinks to work out and we shall not speak of the pain that is Safari.
But I don't think that Edge works for me, at least, not currently.
Also, I use a Mac and Ubuntu everyday for development.
@starbreaker also, because this is the internet, you may want to delete your toots at some point, just for job security (whatever that means). :wink:
And I don't mean that Linux is bad either... It's really good, in fact. Just that it's not adequate for the same uses as Windows. I prefer a Linux dev environment way better than a Windows one
@Siphonay Ubuntu does a decent job at replacing Windows. But a "clone", does not exist, as you pointed out.
You could use WPS Office to replace the Office Suite, for the most part, or just Google Docs.
For most data input jobs, Linux should just fine.
If you're a dev and don't have to worry about supporting Microsoft ecosystems, you're also fine - unless you want to build iOS apps, then, in that case, neither MS or Linux are your friends.
I didn't mean to flame guys I just wanted to say that if what you want is basically a free, open source and functional MS Windows clone, you're out of luck with Linux.
