Zope in 1998 was a complete game-changer.
Wow that brings back memories. Is that still used/supported?
Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?
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#32When I decided to build my own programming language. I had a handful of smaller projects under my belt beforehand. Before that, I had never thought much about what goes into the design of a language, and how important that decisions are (as well as the interactions different parts can have).
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#33Clojure with emacs+cider. The ability to interact with a "living" system in a homoiconic language where functional programming allows you to do some neat stuff was mindblowing. Specially because the LISP guys probably have been doing this for ages. Think React hot reload on steroids, applied to the whole app and with an interactive IDE where you can eval any expression and get immediate feedback, even if the expression interacts with a db (requiring a db connection) or whatever.
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#34My wow moment was when I quit trying to do everything in the language I was comfortable with (PHP) and became a language agnostic engineer. Since then (2 years ago) now I can write in 3 programming language, nobody can realize that I am new at these languages and I know that I can pick a new language up now in a very short time. I had to study so much in these last 2 years but since I love engineering it was funny ra…
This is the best advice on career management. Being able to break out of being "a php engineer" or "a java engineer" lets you target jobs and companies much more freely and ultimately lets you figure out what interests you as a developer in more real terms (and lets you go after it). It also sets you up to lead efforts on solving problems, rather than defining solutions in a more narrow window
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#35matplotlib. at times it can be tiresome, given the multitude of ways it's possible to do things, but it's always possible
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#36My wow moment was when I quit trying to do everything in the language I was comfortable with (PHP) and became a language agnostic engineer. Since then (2 years ago) now I can write in 3 programming language, nobody can realize that I am new at these languages and I know that I can pick a new language up now in a very short time. I had to study so much in these last 2 years but since I love engineering it was funny ra…
This is the best advice on career management. Being able to break out of being "a php engineer" or "a java engineer" lets you target jobs and companies much more freely and ultimately lets you figure out what interests you as a developer in more real terms (and lets you go after it). It also sets you up to lead efforts on solving problems, rather than defining solutions in a more narrow window
yeah defo, learning my second language was big step in my development
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#37For me that was Smalltalk. The environment, the tooling, the purity of the language. Not saying everything is great there, but it's pretty great once you get used to it.
Seaside as a completely different approach on how to develop web applications which turns your thinking upside down when you are used to a typical request-response workflow.
Django as a godsaint after working on a medium-sized pure-php project without any clear structuring.
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#38Miranda[1] The language itself is a toy teaching language (and not even freely licensed), but it's so beautifully elegant - like writing mathematics - and it was a way in to ML and Haskell and other functional programming. In fact to do my homework I had to write a Miranda to Haskell translator so I could run the homework exercises on Linux.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_(programming_language)
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the best advice on career management. Being able to break out of being "a php engineer" or "a java engineer" lets you target jobs and companies much more freely and ultimately lets you figure out what interests you as a developer in more real terms (and lets you go after it). It also sets you up to lead efforts on solving problems, rather than defining solutions in a more narrow window
yeah defo, learning my second language was big step in my development
for the last 7 years i've been a php developer and i'm currently in the process of learning my second language, #c. it's good to hear that someone else has been through this process before me and said it was such a big step!
thanks for giving me some more motivation!
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#40Knowledge-wise: Github. When I began learning Javascript I'd read through the source code of any libraries that appeared to do magic and figure out what the trick was. Very helpful in making things 'click'.
Tool-wise: Vue.js (a single file for code, templates and style is refreshing), Now by zeit.co and Sublime Text are my three hombres.
And hot-reloading, for all those hours it saves me....praise be to Websockets.