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Learning some Java when C++ was dominating. It seemed so much easier for the beginner to get a working program and think more about the problem space in a purer
by quickthrower2 4y ago
Learning some Java when C++ was dominating. It seemed so much
easier for the beginner to get a working program and think more about the problem space in a purer way. Also the fact it came with a great standard library.
- brap 4y ago+1, while not really a “aha” moment, it was definitely a “holy shit” moment coming to Java from C++. Another moment was trying out Node.js to see what all the fuss was about (coming from Java/C#), I’m not a huge fan of JS but I was blown away by how easy it is to build stuff (npm was the real killer feature, unfortunately I never came across any other language that did it better).
- quickthrower2 4y agoThere is something about NodeJS culture that you get very pragmatic and easy to use libraries come out of it. There is a lot of nonsense too, but it the closest ecosystem to lego. It might be the pain of making stuff interoperable on NPM/JS leads towards people going for simpler APIs.