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Seconded. I can have fun using Rust, I can't have fun using C++, so Rust is what I've spent the past ~4 years getting more and more familiar with. Now I'm at a
by brundolf 4y ago
Seconded. I can have fun using Rust, I can't have fun using C++, so Rust is what I've spent the past ~4 years getting more and more familiar with. Now I'm at a point where I could apply to Rust jobs, but certainly not C++ jobs
- vintermann 4y agoConsidering this is a volunteer driven open source project with a high "for the heck of it" factor (Wikipefia: "Fish is considered an exotic shell since it does not rigorously adhere to POSIX shell standards"), I don't think the having fun argument is quite as bad as all the serious people say.
- brundolf 4y agoYeah, but I was also making a further point: if everyone uses the enjoyable language in their spare time, and nobody wants to use the miserable one unless they have to, you get a gradual brain-drain. More and more people have more and more experience with the fun one, and over time it gets easier to hire for (or find contributors for) Of course it's sticky- someone who's already an expert in the miserable language may not choose to totally re-skill themselves (and anyway, once you know something that well it tends to become less miserable). But the new generations will heavily favor the thing that's welcoming to them, not the thing that's prickly