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Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

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Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

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Post by BossingAround »

henrikschroder wrote: post #42
oscargrouch wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dont know if is just a impression of mine, but people are getting more realistic and less romantic about this stuff, really understanding the limits and the use-cases, letting Python do what it does best but leaving some parts of the system to be managed in a AOT-compiled platform like C. I think a lot of people got burn when they adhered to the "i want to use just this thing for everything" mantra, which is pure i…

> "i want to use just this thing for everything" mantra Is node.js dead yet?

More and more popular I hear. Exciting stuff, though JS seems very much disliked on HN.

Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

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Post by tpmx »

collyw wrote: post #25
tpmx wrote: post #15

SPA:s are now being overused for no particular reason, particularly by junior talents, who by now have been taught this is the one and only way to build Professional™ web sites. The Javascript frontend scene almost literally exploded, in various ways. Webasm got some serious traction. Old serious people like this, becuase it may eventually allow them to avoid the increasingly crazy javascript scene. Computer vision (…

I am a Python / Django guy given the choice. Python may be a slow language, but I haven't seen many places where python is the cause of the bottleneck. Rewrite stuff so that the database is doing the heavy lifting, and add the appropriate indexes and you shouldn't have any problems. SPA's are a pain in the arse. Usually close to twice the amount of code to avoid page refreshes. Usually the apps are way slower than a…

> SPA's are a pain in the arse. Usually close to twice the amount of code to avoid page refreshes. Usually the apps are way slower than a page refresh as well - with lots of JSON calls to get data that would be in one server side page load.

Yeah. It's infuriating.

Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

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Post by leet_thow »

jonnytran wrote: post #47
leet_thow wrote: post #10

Interviewing is a nightmare.

Hi, I basically agree. But can you expand on this? What exactly do you (or anyone reading this) see as such a problem with regard to interviewing? Especially, anything you see that's gotten worse.

If you were to ask me, I would say that middle managers are generally miserable and are trying to avoid risk and maintain job security by NOT hiring people as long as there is VC money to burn. But I'm a nihilist.

Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

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Post by eldavido »

NicoJuicy wrote: post #33

A lot of good answers here, but none seem to mention that asp.net core is improving a lot and getting traction. Microsoft bought GitHub and LinkedIn. Oracle is disliked like before.

Have to second this. ASP.NET Core is awesome. Probably wouldn't try to learn it as a first web framework (Django or Rails are better at this), nor is it quite as batteries-included as those other two, but it has a very "grown up" feel to it I like.

Relative to other frameworks, ASP.NET Core is sort of like the tooling maturity of Java (great editor/libraries, rock-solid VM, everything typed and static) combined with the simplicity / "start from scratch" feel of Padrino, Sinatra or Flask, with the expressiveness of a really nice language with type inference, good functional primitives (e.g. LINQ). You can probably serve hundreds/thousands of customers on a single Heroku dyno or three due to extremely robust non-blocking I/O, faster code execution, and much better memory management than Python/Ruby.

Give it a shot. I really like it.

Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

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Post by eyegor »

BossingAround wrote: post #49
NicoJuicy wrote: post #33

A lot of good answers here, but none seem to mention that asp.net core is improving a lot and getting traction. Microsoft bought GitHub and LinkedIn. Oracle is disliked like before.

In my mind, with OpenSource being more and more well regarded, the disdain for C#, a language once Windows-only, grows larger. Probably just a bias in my circles, as we're heavy OSS users and contributors..?

I mean, ms has released net core 3.0 (fully open source), blazor, and ml.net. F# has always been open source. They also made private repos free on github, released vs code, released zero and deepspeed for pytorch and published the state of the art NLP model along with it. So I'd say your circles probably have a justified chip on their shoulders from the old days.

Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

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Post by hassancf »

BossingAround wrote: post #48
muzani wrote: post #4

I think React is "winning" the framework competition, if we're judging from number of jobs. It seems like a business decision for many people - React can make websites and apps, and it's probably easier. I haven't had enough experience to say, but it seems like Java; not necessarily the best tool, but something easy to hire for. Flutter is also coming in hard on mobile. Also not something I've had enough experience t…

React + TypeScript seems to be to frontend JS as JEE was to Java.

JEE to Java? In a positive way? Or as in: this is a humongous framework for what it’s doing (CRUD apps)...

Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

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Post by mrfusion »

mixedCase wrote: post #5

Probably the most surprising thing for you: Go is getting generics. No exact timeline, but it's happening for Go 2.0. Rust is seeing production use in many places and its being accepted more as the sane alternative to C for modern development of high performance software. Ecosystem still not big or mature enough to make big waves, however, but that depends on how you interpret "big waves". SPAs are used and abused, t…

Why kubertetes vs docker? And why rust vs D or golang ?

Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

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Post by mrfusion »

muzani wrote: post #4

I think React is "winning" the framework competition, if we're judging from number of jobs. It seems like a business decision for many people - React can make websites and apps, and it's probably easier. I haven't had enough experience to say, but it seems like Java; not necessarily the best tool, but something easy to hire for. Flutter is also coming in hard on mobile. Also not something I've had enough experience t…

Dumb question but how is react better than jquery? (Im from 2010 instead of 2017 like op)
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