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Programming language agnosticism is the only way to move forward in life

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Re: Programming language agnosticism is the only way to move forward in life

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The only people who obsess over languages are the core contributors (1%) or the guy who has been a mid level senior for 20 years and kind of stopped growing/learning years ago (95%) Everyone else is the SWE turned entrepreneur who doesn’t give a fuck and just wants fastest ROI. Aka using a hammer instead of a saw to put in a nail.

I don’t agree with this. If you found your favorite type of car, then that’s your preference. Each car can take you to roughly same place (unless you have a specific use case like off-road). If you a preference for a language, but your use case needs another language, then use case trumps preference. It’s silly to belittle a language preference given the facts. Some languages and ecosystems are delightful to work wit…

That’s not what I said at all in relation to the OP.

You and I agree. We are discussing people who don’t understand this nuance. That’s the majority of people I’ve met.

That’s why i said we use a hammer for a nail, and not a saw. Aka using the tool that makes sense.

Re: Programming language agnosticism is the only way to move forward in life

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I feel the same way about OOP. When OOP was invented in the 70s and then popularized in C++ it solved real problems of scaling software with critical memory limitations. Now it’s just code style. It’s now excess unnecessary code to provide a familiar architecture that really gets in the way. I just want to solve my software problems with portable solutions without excess decoration and vanity. My career has shown me…

One of the things I'm learning away from is "magic". Magic methods, reflection, and configuration with code (JS world, Gradle). Especially when such magic is powering conventions. The only exception is lisp macro as it's mostly code that produce code with a simple mechanism: quoting. IDEs are places you'll find such magic. To write a simple mobile app, you'll need GBs of SDK because they couldn't bother coming up wit…

> configuration with code

https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-comple... is a post you might enjoy.

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