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Re: Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun?

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Post by whalesalad »

Pleasure to me means I can sleep at night knowing whatever system I’ve built will remain online when subsystems fail, and will self-heal when infrastructure goes down.

When it comes to a career change I’d focus less on lang/stack and more on engineering culture, approach, practice. A team that builds good software, regardless of language or stack, will be a pleasure to work with.

I think that functional programming ideals lend themselves to this nicely. Specifically: data as a first principle, with actions/mutations/calculations of that data being separate.

Re: Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun?

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Post by sandGorgon »

pleasure == productivity

ruby on rails is still awesome. But since you might have to work with react anyways...nextjs is a second.

On the mobile side - Flutter is unparalleled. No seriously - im a react guy. And Dart is weird. But Flutter is seriously the Ruby on Rails of the mobile world.

Re: Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun?

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Post by marvindanig »

Since you mentioned React Native, I assume you're pointing towards mobile app development. The best stack combination for me has been webview + PWA + webassembly + toucaan to create an intrinsically designed universal mobile-web app. There's something really powerful about deploying just one application on three separate distribution platforms. And it's not even a monorepo anymore!

Re: Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun?

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Post by pavlov »

For me, native macOS with AppKit (Cocoa) and Objective-C is still the best and most productive development environment.

No client/server division to worry about, all of the desktop environment's capabilities developed over decades, insane CPU and GPU power and memory bandwidth (now on Apple's industry-leading ARM chips). Obj-C gives seamless access to both C/C++ APIs and the best desktop GUI with incredibly powerful features like the Cocoa text system.

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