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Is somebody that is taking the time to learn Rust really going to struggle with a handful of commands though? Day to day I never need more than /join, /part, /m

Is somebody that is taking the time to learn Rust really going to struggle with a handful of commands though? Day to day I never need more than /join, /part, /msg, or the occasional /quit, and I'm using a terminal based client, some phone/web clients I've used don't require any commands.

detaro 7y ago
Mozilla's chat is not just for developers.
- Aengeuad 7y ago
  Nor is IRC, which is what prompted me to reply. I made a mistake though, nobody else in the comment chain was talking about Rust or developers. I had read a comment in another part of the thread which linked to Mozilla's forums [0] which mentioned more people in the developers channels on the Matrix instance, which I had mistakenly assumed was part of this comment chain, hence the question relating to developers. [0] https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/synchronous-messaging-at-mozilla-were-live/54424 https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/synchronous-messaging-at-moz... >The number of participants in our primary development channels has already exceeded their counterparts on IRC at their most active [...]
bitwize 7y ago
Professional developers mostly use Macs these days, and won't touch anything that doesn't have a nice UI that does exactly what they expect. Anything that looks too textual or "computer-code-y" that's not related to what they're working on, they will stay away from. Case in point: virtually no one uses Emacs. Even Vim is diminishing; most devs now use Visual Studio Code.
- dvdgsng 7y ago
  > Professional developers mostly use Macs these days > most devs now use Visual Studio Code. You seem to live in some other world than I ...
- forgottenpass 7y ago
  I vehemently implore you to spend some time outside the Valley bubble.
  - bitwize 7y ago
    This is Hackernews. What's outside the Valley bubble besides desert and the occasional poor soul who undergoes the indignity of growing old rather than Renewing through Carousel? :) I work on the East Coast at a company that's over 100 years old -- though they are modernizing their development efforts (something I'm heavily involved with). And literally everyone else in our portfolio uses VSCode to develop with except for legacy Java stuff which is usually manipulated with Eclipse. A Triplebyte study from two years ago showed that most developers undergoing their interview process used Visual Studio Code: https://triplebyte.com/blog/editor-report-the-rise-of-visual-studio-code https://triplebyte.com/blog/editor-report-the-rise-of-visual... While Triplebyte is Silly Valley, presumably they have clients outside the bubble.
    - davidy123 7y ago
      There's a pretty good vim mode for vscode.
      - Johan-bjareholt 7y ago
        Any half-decent VIM user knows that there are no good vim emulators, only ones which do the absolute basics right. That includes vim mode for vscode which last time I used it even lagged when using it.
        davidy123 7y ago
        Well, yeah, not sure why you even wrote this except to get some snark in. The point is the trade off of having the basic if imperfect operation of vi/vim, along with what vscode offers. That includes connecting with the large community of vscode users.
        beatgammit 7y ago
- michaelmrose 7y ago
  Wouldn't the stack overflow developers survey be more valid than relying on your professional peers? Around 30% use vim or Emacs. Linux is about as popular as Mac and windows is still as popular as both combined. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019 https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019
  - nl 7y ago
    The numbers don't add up to 100% so it must be non-exclusive (ie, people use VS.Code and Vim). Worth noting that simply adding means that yes, Vim+Emacs ~= 30%, but VS.Code + VS ~= 80%
    - michaelmrose 7y ago
      I'm guessing that overlap between different options might be hard to predict in some situations but easier in others. If raw data is available you could of course answer more precisely. I'm thinking that plenty of users use both an ide and a text editor but few use more than one text editor. For example few use emacs because its required by their job thus emacs + vim probably IS 30% but VS.Code + VS probably has a substantial overlap.
- _eht 7y ago
  Step outside your bubble sometime; we don’t byte.
  - shinsheel 7y ago
    I like this pun:D
- ci5er 7y ago
  They do? I may or may not be using a Mac at some point during the day (because Apple forces me to, to do iOS development), but usually whether my host is Windows or Mac, I have 3~8 Linux VMs running at any particular time. Now, I will use SublimeText, instead of vi, from time-to-time (not often), but I don't think I am out of the mainstream... BTW: I up-voted you because I think you have a point worth discussing, and that's hard to do when you are down-voted to hell, even if I don't agree with you...
- NoahTheDuke 7y ago
  Virtually no one uses Emacs because 1) Lisps are out of favor (excepting Clojure, which has excellent support with Calva), 2) the out of the box experience is bad and customization is not simple at all, and imo 3) chording as the primary means of operation is outdated.
  - beatgammit 7y ago
    Evil mode is easy to set up and org-mode is almost enough to get someone to move to emacs. I don't know tht numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if emacs was roughly as popular as vim.
- jcdentonunatco 7y ago
  No they don't. The stack overflow survey shows that the highest number of developers use Windows at 47.5% followed by Mac at 26.8% and Linux at 25.6% https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019 https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019
- tbergeron 7y ago
  How is living on Planet Mars? Go out of the valley once and you'll learn about a whole new world! t. using vim, tmux, i3 and linux.

detaro 7y ago

Mozilla's chat is not just for developers.

Aengeuad 7y ago
Nor is IRC, which is what prompted me to reply. I made a mistake though, nobody else in the comment chain was talking about Rust or developers. I had read a comment in another part of the thread which linked to Mozilla's forums [0] which mentioned more people in the developers channels on the Matrix instance, which I had mistakenly assumed was part of this comment chain, hence the question relating to developers. [0] https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/synchronous-messaging-at-mozilla-were-live/54424 https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/synchronous-messaging-at-moz... >The number of participants in our primary development channels has already exceeded their counterparts on IRC at their most active [...]

bitwize 7y ago

Professional developers mostly use Macs these days, and won't touch anything that doesn't have a nice UI that does exactly what they expect. Anything that looks too textual or "computer-code-y" that's not related to what they're working on, they will stay away from. Case in point: virtually no one uses Emacs. Even Vim is diminishing; most devs now use Visual Studio Code.

dvdgsng 7y ago
> Professional developers mostly use Macs these days > most devs now use Visual Studio Code. You seem to live in some other world than I ...
forgottenpass 7y ago
I vehemently implore you to spend some time outside the Valley bubble.
- bitwize 7y ago
  This is Hackernews. What's outside the Valley bubble besides desert and the occasional poor soul who undergoes the indignity of growing old rather than Renewing through Carousel? :) I work on the East Coast at a company that's over 100 years old -- though they are modernizing their development efforts (something I'm heavily involved with). And literally everyone else in our portfolio uses VSCode to develop with except for legacy Java stuff which is usually manipulated with Eclipse. A Triplebyte study from two years ago showed that most developers undergoing their interview process used Visual Studio Code: https://triplebyte.com/blog/editor-report-the-rise-of-visual-studio-code https://triplebyte.com/blog/editor-report-the-rise-of-visual... While Triplebyte is Silly Valley, presumably they have clients outside the bubble.
  - davidy123 7y ago
    There's a pretty good vim mode for vscode.
    - Johan-bjareholt 7y ago
      Any half-decent VIM user knows that there are no good vim emulators, only ones which do the absolute basics right. That includes vim mode for vscode which last time I used it even lagged when using it.
      - davidy123 7y ago
        Well, yeah, not sure why you even wrote this except to get some snark in. The point is the trade off of having the basic if imperfect operation of vi/vim, along with what vscode offers. That includes connecting with the large community of vscode users.
      - beatgammit 7y ago
michaelmrose 7y ago
Wouldn't the stack overflow developers survey be more valid than relying on your professional peers? Around 30% use vim or Emacs. Linux is about as popular as Mac and windows is still as popular as both combined. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019 https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019
- nl 7y ago
  The numbers don't add up to 100% so it must be non-exclusive (ie, people use VS.Code and Vim). Worth noting that simply adding means that yes, Vim+Emacs ~= 30%, but VS.Code + VS ~= 80%
  - michaelmrose 7y ago
    I'm guessing that overlap between different options might be hard to predict in some situations but easier in others. If raw data is available you could of course answer more precisely. I'm thinking that plenty of users use both an ide and a text editor but few use more than one text editor. For example few use emacs because its required by their job thus emacs + vim probably IS 30% but VS.Code + VS probably has a substantial overlap.
_eht 7y ago
Step outside your bubble sometime; we don’t byte.
- shinsheel 7y ago
  I like this pun:D
ci5er 7y ago
They do? I may or may not be using a Mac at some point during the day (because Apple forces me to, to do iOS development), but usually whether my host is Windows or Mac, I have 3~8 Linux VMs running at any particular time. Now, I will use SublimeText, instead of vi, from time-to-time (not often), but I don't think I am out of the mainstream... BTW: I up-voted you because I think you have a point worth discussing, and that's hard to do when you are down-voted to hell, even if I don't agree with you...
NoahTheDuke 7y ago
Virtually no one uses Emacs because 1) Lisps are out of favor (excepting Clojure, which has excellent support with Calva), 2) the out of the box experience is bad and customization is not simple at all, and imo 3) chording as the primary means of operation is outdated.
- beatgammit 7y ago
  Evil mode is easy to set up and org-mode is almost enough to get someone to move to emacs. I don't know tht numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if emacs was roughly as popular as vim.
jcdentonunatco 7y ago
No they don't. The stack overflow survey shows that the highest number of developers use Windows at 47.5% followed by Mac at 26.8% and Linux at 25.6% https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019 https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019
tbergeron 7y ago
How is living on Planet Mars? Go out of the valley once and you'll learn about a whole new world! t. using vim, tmux, i3 and linux.