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Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by brylie » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:53 PM UTC

srikz wrote: post #39

Vue js. Everytime I tried to learn one of these frameworks before while doing a project I would quickly fall back to vanilla js as my projects weren't complex enough to see the value, which meant not much incentive to learn the APIs and the 'framework way' of doing things. Finally this year I had to do a project which was sufficiently complex to justify using a framework and where I was glad at the end of it with the…

I'm learning Django also. It really stands out as a mature development framework. In conjunction with django, I am also building an online magazine website with WagtailCMS.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by collyw » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:53 PM UTC

elorm wrote: post #18

Zhyl wrote: post #8

Weirdly, perl. I found myself on a client site in a locked down environment with only the Windows version of GIT installed. Powershell disabled, no other programs allowed. I had to produce reports on the log files for this machine, but had to obfuscate information before taking it off the server. I discovered that git had bash installed quite early on, so my initial automation and reporting was based on UNIX pipeline…

Hey, there’s an old school community(they prefer monastery) called PerlMonks[0]where you can share your Perl oneliners and also pick up some mind blowing stuff. Come hang around sometime [0] https://perlmonks.org/

Worth noting that PerlMonks functions similarly to stack overflow (for Perl at least), with the difference that discussion is actually encouraged.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by INTPenis » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:56 PM UTC

Vue.js, CI/CD pipelines, aws[beanstalk|cloudfront|rds|acm], flask modules with blueprints, JWT. It was a fun year, started a freelancing business in parallel to my day job. busybusybusy

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by vchernobyl » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:56 PM UTC

Dowwie wrote: post #33

rohan1024 wrote: post #28

Flutter/Dart: Still learning but I'm quiet amazed by the quality of apps made in record time.

How would you rate the resources to learn and reference? Is it accessible for mobile newbies?

It's very accessible for everybody! The official documentation is excellent and covers you from a to z (UI, Networking, JSON serialization, etc). It gives you a strong foundation on which to base your application and exposes you to a few recommended application architectures (for example Redux and BLoC). If you're interested in mobile dev, it's definitely worth giving it a try :)

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by vjandrea » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:56 PM UTC

Lua and Python, loving both. After years of Wordpress went back to static websites, loving Jekyll, trying Grav as well. Abandoned Laravel for a while, too busy doing other stuff.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by jb3689 » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:57 PM UTC

Haskell. I don't like how it is whitespace sensitive and the compiler errors can be terribly unhelpful, but it's cool to see what you can do with lazy evaluation

Clojure. Not something I find myself using day-to-day but I think it has some cool qualities (seamless metaprogramming). I found the APIs a little frustrating to wrap my head around

Kinesis, MongoDB, Hadoop. Evaluated all of these when designing an event ingestion/stats processing system

Concourse. Lots of Linux stuff. Lots more Bash. Some game programming libraries for giggles

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by reitanqild » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:57 PM UTC

cjvirtucio wrote: post #16

.NET Core. It's got everything I need from the java world, without the baggage from being an old technology.

Same here. It also works almost perfectly on Linux.

It has probably replaced Java as my go-to language. Which is amazing. I thought I was a die hard Java fan.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by nikolap_ » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:58 PM UTC

Mostly Haskell and a bit Machine Learning.

I got intrigued by it’s clean syntax and pure approach. Almost finished Haskell From First Prinicples. I like it a lot and I‘m looking forward to write a website in it.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by clvx » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 2:00 PM UTC

- Go.

- Kubernetes.

- Hadoop/Spark.

Re: Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

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Post by pietrovismara » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 2:01 PM UTC

Typescript and Rust.

The focus has been on Typescript because i needed it, and I have to say with just JS I wouldn't have been able to develop large scale apps as I'm doing.

Rust has been more curiosity driven, rather than by need as with TS. I have to say it is quite a steep learning curve for me, and I stil struggle too often to replicate something I write in JS/TS with Rust, while improving performance.

The experience had me value a lot the nature of JS (single thread with event loop), because it makes it so easy to write code that feels multi threaded but retains the smaller complexity of single threaded code. I still have to properly learn how to achieve something similar in Rust.

That said, I'm loving Rust, especially on the education aspect it's giving me a lot of insight on computer science theory.