With so many 'sub genres' in programming (machine learning, networking, frontend, etc.), what's your favorite one? For me, I really like sockets/TCP type programming in Rust and C but I'm curious what people like to code in free time.
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#2Okay, I'll byte.
I love almost every aspect of computing, from software to hardware.
Distributed systems, networking, single-machine vertical scaling, graphics programming, statistics and ML, NLP, vision, frontend.
Also love server hardware, grew up water-cooling and overclocking systems in the late nineties and early 00s.
I also find it fulfilling to help friends and family resolve their computer problems.
I'd like to learn more about embedded systems, I fantasize about creating my own devices stop esp32, but haven't gotten close to having time to explore this yet.
I will learn and use whatever language it takes to get the outcome I wish :)
I will also say that as I'm getting a bit older, I'm a little sick of the physically boring aspect of sitting in front of a computer for many hours on end. No longer appealing.
Cheers.
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#3My favorite programming niche is SEO optimization. I really like optimizing pages and see the traffic grow.
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#4Blockchain/smart contracts, Lisp, reverse engineering.
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#5Tinkering with microcontrollers is probably the most satisfying, because it really challenges you to understand exactly what is going on at all times, right down to the electrical level.
Developing for retro hardware can be fun too, for similar reasons.
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#6OS kernel programming.
Modern Linux is too complicated for me, so I pick something smaller that can be easily understood by reading docs for a few hours: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html
You'll see various folks publish their xv6 modifications on Github.
BTW, my daily work is mobile app dev (mostly Kotlin, sometimes Flutter). Totally unrelated, eh?
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#7My favorite programming niche is SEO optimization. I really like optimizing pages and see the traffic grow.
That's not programming, mate.
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#8My favorite subgenre is when my commit looks like:
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#9My favorite programming niche is SEO optimization. I really like optimizing pages and see the traffic grow.
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#10Tinkering with microcontrollers is probably the most satisfying, because it really challenges you to understand exactly what is going on at all times, right down to the electrical level. Developing for retro hardware can be fun too, for similar reasons.
>Tinkering with microcontrollers is probably the most satisfying
Not so satisfying when seeing the pay-grade compared to other CS fields.