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kaffiene , (edited ) in What it's like to be a developer in 2024

Try being a programmer in the 90s. Just like that but with no entries at all

cjk ,

💯 came here to say that.

GJdan ,

Okay, Yahoo and AskJeeves didn’t have anything useful. Let’s try this Google thing.

barsoap ,

Altavista. Back when keywords still meant something.

JargonWagon , (edited )

I’m guessing it was more like “Let me pull this book off the shelves and wade through that for the answers”

kaffiene ,

Yeah. Can I get a book - usually something official like K&R for C.

WarmApplePieShrek ,

And the book had all the answers.

Test_Tickles ,

The book had half ass answers. Their examples rarely had anything to do with reality.

Hammerheart ,

So not a whole lot has changed. I cringe thinking of all the youtube video that explain OOP like this


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Test_Tickles ,

Jesus… You should worn a man before you try to trigger his PTSD.

fibojoly ,

It was called The x86 Assembly Bible and I would not have been able to do much of anything without it.

Blackmist ,

I learnt C on an Amiga. No memory protection at all. Pointer errors would likely need a reboot to recover.

I rebooted a lot.

kaffiene ,

I also learned C on the Amiga. I loved SAS C. I also came across C++ first on the Amiga when it was just a pre processor for C. I really loved that machine but it was the community that was special

Vivendi , in Perpetual Motion finally achieved!

Seriously. Try publishing anything not written in Rust nowadays and you WILL get multiple “bUt baut mUh rUsT??? 1?1!! 11!1!” Comments.

problematicPanther , in What it's like to be a developer in 2024
@problematicPanther@lemmy.world avatar

so apparently google search is just shitty now, that’s the takeaway here.

ZILtoid1991 , in Perpetual Motion finally achieved!

I’m a D developer, this wouldn’t work for me. Hell, I can even in theory directly interact with C++ code from my language of choice, except I still haven’t. I have started to write a binding (and some nice D-style API) for Wasmtime, which is written in Rust.

ScreaminOctopus , in Perpetual Motion finally achieved!

Tbf, does anyone actually “like” C++?

suy ,

Yes. There is already an answer with many votes saying so, but I’ll add myself to the list.

I don’t have to like all the language, and not even all of the standard library. I learnt C++ with the Qt library, and I still do 99% of my development using Qt because it’s the kind of software that I like to write the most. I can choose the parts that I like the most about the full C++ ecosystem, like most people do (you would have to see how different game development is, for example).

I’m also learning Rust, and I see nothing wrong with it. It’s just that I see C++ better for the kind of stuff that I need to write (at this time at least).

refalo ,

personally I just can’t get over the syntax to even try rust. to me it just looks terrible. I know not everybody agrees though. that and having even longer compile times and no mature gui framework

ScreaminOctopus ,

IMO the syntax is fine except for the borrow checker shit that just looks arcane. The fact that everything cargo drags in is statically linked really turns me off the language for anything serious. It’s really unfortunate because I’d otherwise put some time into learning it, but it seems like the rust foundation is fine with this (ridiculous IMO) workflow.

frezik ,

I like a subset of C++ that’s sane enough to grapple with.

Lobreeze ,

I don’t mind it

SEND_NOODLES_PLS , in What it's like to be a developer in 2024

I get quite a bit of flak from my colleagues for paying for search, but I kid you not, I don’t regret splurging on a Kagi subscription at all. It’s personally less stressful for me, having to wade through less cruft, and I think I even work significantly faster because of how I use it.

It’s sad when you think about it. Search was such a good experience in the past.

lilja ,
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I also pay for Kagi and I’m super happy with that decision. I do wish they’d stop putting so much AI cruft into their search engine, but at least I can disable it.

30p87 ,

With most topics, I find fastgpt to be the most up to date, accurate and best sourced. And with just a normal search there’s basically just one expandable strip with AI, no real annoyance for me.

churros ,

I was against the ai integrations until I started actually trying them… quick answers are awesome.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/620e7bdb-4e33-412e-9282-739d269cb89d.png

OpenPassageways , in What it's like to be a developer in 2024

Some of this is just because some of these frameworks and technologies have been around for a while and they iterate frequently. I see a ton of Azure content that is obsolete after only a few years.

MagicShel , in Any of you folks around before epoch need a new job?

I spent all my time in utero working on binary division.

lurch ,

i was debugging assembly even before i got reincarnated

xmunk , in Any of you folks around before epoch need a new job?

I can only assume this company put so much effort into their role posting because they’re specifically trying to hire quiet quitters that are concurrently holding five or more jobs. I’d encourage any such persons to apply.

MajorHavoc , in Any of you folks around before epoch need a new job?

“Pay attention to details…”

Artyom ,

“Our code is a buggy mess and no one so far has been able to fix it”

mosiacmango ,

“Please god come throw your body in the pile we use to fill up the holes. We are very nearly out of unwitting flesh here.”

jnk , in Any of you folks around before epoch need a new job?

If they require at least a 71yo, assuming the person started working at 16 and has dedicated their entire life to develop software without ever touching management positions, … At what age does people retire in that country??

_edge ,

You guys get to retire?

jnk ,

Damn… I swear no one will ever see me again after my 65th birthday, I’ll be on the beach, probably knitting till I die

LaggyKar ,
@LaggyKar@programming.dev avatar

Sounds like a typical COBOL dev

JATtho , in Perpetual Motion finally achieved!

C++: you sure you want to do this? This will either: a) blow your foot off b) be too fast to be measured in micro-benchmarks.

b. B. B. a. then B.

You have chosen to simultaneously blow your arm off and be the fastest code thing on the planet. Congrats. Yes.

sukhmel , (edited ) in Any of you folks around before epoch need a new job?

Does it count if I have “5” years of experience in Go and 5 in Nodejs?

ᵉᵈⁱᵗAdded quotation marks around the first number to make it a string

I_am_10_squirrels ,

5+5=55

Big brain thinking

sukhmel ,
Rolder , in Any of you folks around before epoch need a new job?

I feel like this is a typo and the 55 is intended to just be 5

Technus , in stupidestAdvertisingEver

I once had a spambot @ me and like 100 other people I didn’t know on a repo I’d never touched before.

I reported it for spam and got an email from Github Support within an hour notifying me that they had taken action.

Aatube OP , (edited )

I remember that time some guy pinged nearly 40k people and single-handedly delayed GitHub's email servers by about 4.18 hours

AVincentInSpace ,

Your Markdown link is backwards. It should be [link text]/(url) (delete the slash obvs)

Aatube OP ,

aaaaargh I don't want get old 😭

smowtenshi ,
@smowtenshi@lemmy.world avatar

Oh hey, it recently happened to me too.

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