Sure. But in a sane language doing something totally nonsensical like that is an error, and in a statically typed language it’s a compiler error. It doesn’t just silently do weird shit.
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Sure. But in a sane language doing something totally nonsensical like that is an error, and in a statically typed language it’s a compiler error. It doesn’t just silently do weird shit.
I used GitLab’s version of Copilot when it was free and that was net helpful. It predicted for loops and stuff and was close enough, enough of the time that it was net positive. Not enough that I’d actually pay for it…
If I designed the schema it is most certainly going to be structured. Unstructured databases are awful.
You consider calculating the hash of a few bytes to be heavy lifting?
just use
await
in anasync function
.
Sure, I’ll just put await
and async
everywhere. Oh wait, I can’t. A constructor can’t be async so now I need to restructure my code to use async factories instead of constructors. Wonderful…
async/await infecting all of my code, being unable to create a get myField()
method that involves a hash calculation. It may be standard to do heavy lifting concurrently, but async hash functions are certainly not standard in any of the languages I’ve used (which is quite a few).
That seems like a good guess, I can see why async hashing could be useful. But it would be nice if there was an alternative API that was blocking so my code wouldn’t get infected with async/await all over the place…
So you’re arguing that “Object oriented” shouldn’t apply to languages that are oriented around objects?
Of course, but OOP is typically about putting methods on classes, inheritance of behaviour etc.
You’re referring to one subtype of OOP. That may be what most people mean when they say OOP, but that doesn’t make it correct. Object-oriented programming is programming with objects, which does not require inheritance or classes.
It’s hard to distinguish whether a line is wrongly indented or not.
That’s very much not my experience. I use YAML regularly and while I’ve had copy paste indentation errors when I look at the offending line it’s always obvious to me how to fix the indentation. The only indentation thing that’s ever given me trouble is embedding YAML as a string within a file that uses tabs.
If you have a solid idea of your competence, GitLab uses a calculator for salary and they make it public. If you don’t have a solid idea, ask someone who’s worked with you and who will be honest.
BTW someone said mid-level in SF is $200k, so my number may be way out of date.
A competent mid-level developer in San Francisco should be making in the ballpark of $120k salary. There are approximately 50 work weeks in a year (2 weeks of vacation) so 40 hours a week means 2000 hours a year or $60 an hour (for a full time employee). 2x for being a contractor and adjust appropriately for your level of competence/expertise and cost of living.
As someone whose first language was C, I plan to never use C++ for anything more than programming an Arduino precisely because of the multitude of pointer types. A pointer should just be a pointer. Having five hundred different flavors of pointers is confusing as fuck.
Ananace and the article they linked are using their dislike of Go to conclude that it’s a bad language*. It is not a bad language. Every language has hidden complexity and foot guns. They don’t like Go. Maybe you won’t like Go. That’s ok. But that doesn’t make Go a bad language. The language designers are very opinionated and you might dislike them and their decisions.
I haven’t used Rust but from what I’ve seen, it’s a lot less readable than Go. And the only thing more important than readability is whether or not the code does what it’s supposed to do. For that reason I doubt I’ll ever use Rust outside of specific circumstances.
*I’m using “a bad language” as shorthand for “a language you shouldn’t use”. Maybe they don’t think it’s bad but amounts to the same thing.
I’ve done a little bit of Python in the past, the biggest thing being an automation task that borderline became an app. I certainly can imagine using it for scripts, though I default to bash because that’s almost always available but TBH mostly because inertia. Beyond that my default is Go because inertia (and I love Go). I watched a video by the Primeagen (on YT) - in his view, Rust is better for text/data pipelines and CLI tools. Being very familiar with Go and not at all familiar with Rust, that’s an interesting take because honestly writing a CLI in Go is kind of meh.
so you have to catch all exceptions then do extra work to tell what the specific situation is
That’s horrifying. That’s a solid reason to avoid Python like the plague.
I think it’s a joke about the song being copyrighted
Sure. Most people will stick with Windows or macOS and that doesn’t bother me. In fact I’m happy that people who want simplicity have those options because it means less pressure for Linux to turn into that.
Not that they are shit tbf.
That’s your opinion. My opinion is that Windows is a garbage fire.
I was trying to make a point without starting a flamewar that was beside the point. Personally I’d never choose a dynamically typed language for a production system. That being said, Python and Ruby complain if you try to add an array, dict/hashmap, string, or number to another (of a different type) so they’re certainly more sane than JavaScript.