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> Do people not regularly question what language to use when starting a project? For me, it depends ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If I'm working with a team I'll choose a languag

by sibit 4y ago

> Do people not regularly question what language to use when starting a project? For me, it depends ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If I'm working with a team I'll choose a language that best fits the team/project. For example last year I was working on a project and I used C# since everyone on the team knew the language (and most of the team only knew C#) even though I knew Go would be a better choice. I spent 2 days creating the program and it could process all our files/data in about 40+ minutes. I then spent the next day rewriting it in Go which could process everything in about 1 minute. Whenever possible I'll start with something that the team can help support and I'll refactor/rewrite it if I have time to "do it better". In my experience management/companies are not willing to change the status quo but asking for forgiveness (after providing a significant improvement) hasn't caused any issues (yet). If I'm working on personal projects I always look for the "best" solution/language even if it means I have to extend my timeframe to learn something new.

metaltyphoon 4y ago
Lol 40m vs 1m. Yeah I don’t mean to be rude but you probably didn’t know what you doing using C#. Your first clue that you did something wrong was the time difference.
- sibit 4y ago
  > you probably didn’t know what you doing using C# Maybe. I was using a NuGet package recommended by the senior dev (that the team was very familiar with) but with Go, I decided to write everything myself. One could argue it's not a great comparison but I think it is. The main point of comparison was using solutions/languages that the team is familiar with versus exploring something new or different. > I don’t mean to be rude No offense take, I don't think I'm better or worse than any other average developer.
  - metaltyphoon 4y ago
    If u don’t mind, it peaked my curiosity, can you share what Nuget library that is? I want to try a sample data with C# and Go. What version of dotnet were you using? Did you try implementing what you did in C# just like Go?
    - sibit 4y ago
      The package was called iText on .NET 5. The goal of the project was to read millions of PDFs (something like 9.7 million) and pull some of the text content from every other page. > Did you try implementing what you did in C# just like Go? No, but I'd be willing to be that it would be about the same. In hindsight, I created a strawman argument benefiting Go since I've only used C# occasionally for the last 7(ish) years and I'd never used iText before. Regardless of whether people thought Go was "better" (which wasn't my intention) the team opened up to the idea of looking at other tools/languages. Not long after when we started a new projects people asked questions like "would this be better if we used C++ or Rust"?

by sibit 4y ago

metaltyphoon 4y ago

Lol 40m vs 1m. Yeah I don’t mean to be rude but you probably didn’t know what you doing using C#. Your first clue that you did something wrong was the time difference.

sibit 4y ago
> you probably didn’t know what you doing using C# Maybe. I was using a NuGet package recommended by the senior dev (that the team was very familiar with) but with Go, I decided to write everything myself. One could argue it's not a great comparison but I think it is. The main point of comparison was using solutions/languages that the team is familiar with versus exploring something new or different. > I don’t mean to be rude No offense take, I don't think I'm better or worse than any other average developer.
- metaltyphoon 4y ago
  If u don’t mind, it peaked my curiosity, can you share what Nuget library that is? I want to try a sample data with C# and Go. What version of dotnet were you using? Did you try implementing what you did in C# just like Go?
  - sibit 4y ago
    The package was called iText on .NET 5. The goal of the project was to read millions of PDFs (something like 9.7 million) and pull some of the text content from every other page. > Did you try implementing what you did in C# just like Go? No, but I'd be willing to be that it would be about the same. In hindsight, I created a strawman argument benefiting Go since I've only used C# occasionally for the last 7(ish) years and I'd never used iText before. Regardless of whether people thought Go was "better" (which wasn't my intention) the team opened up to the idea of looking at other tools/languages. Not long after when we started a new projects people asked questions like "would this be better if we used C++ or Rust"?