Every industry is full of technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?

  • hawgietonight@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I usually take these holiday weeks off to learn a new language or framework, and started to take a peek into Python, I had it on the back burner way too long. Got to the dynamic variable types and my heart sunk… I couldn’t continue.

    Maybe I should take a third attempt at Rust.

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Honestly modern python is not that bad because of the typing hints and checks you can run on them nowadays. Also it’s worth noting that python has very strong types, so it’s not illy willy magical types, and while it is possible to use it like that it’s normally not encouraged (unlike other languages).

      That being said, if you haven’t learnt Rust I strongly encourage you to read the book and go through the rustling exercises. Honestly while still a new and relatively nieche language, it fixes so many of the issues that exist in other languages that I think it will slowly take over everything. Sure. It’s slower to write, but you avoid so much hassle on maintenance afterwards.

      • Gagootron@feddit.org
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        6 hours ago

        i hadn’t heard of the rustlings before. looks neat, might be what i need to finally learn rust properly