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I haven't met a good professional programmer working in webdev who didn't know their way around linux. I've met plenty of bad programers who got into this fiel
by nicolas_t 4y ago
I haven't met a good professional programmer working in webdev who didn't know their way around linux.
I've met plenty of bad programers who got into this field for money, didn't know how their way around unix, were barely able to do fizz buzz and would be better doing something else. I haven't hired them though. Not knowing one's way around linux is a sign of lack of curiosity and passion for the topic.
It's obviously different in some fields (like gamedev) where the code produced by the dev is not supposed to run in a linux environment.
- maccard 4y agoI work in gamedev and all our servers run on Linux. Theres a world of difference between knowing your target environment, and knowing a laundry list of shell commands that you can pipe together. "Knowing Linux" falls into the second camp in my experience
- ZephyrBlu 4y ago> Not knowing one's way around linux is a sign of lack of curiosity and passion for the topic Complete bullshit. The only thing it's a sign of is that you're not curious or passionate about linux. Knowing about and being interested in linux may be a positive signal, but the opposite is not a negative signal. Knowing linux is not a requirement to be a good professional programmer working in webdev.
- neilalexander 4y agoExactly this. I feel like a lot of operating system enthusiasts forget that the operating system is, to many people, merely another tool to enable them to do something else. You can absolutely be enthusiastic about achieving an end result and not give a damn about the tools that got you there.
- UncleEntity 4y agoI was under the impression all the cool kids used MacBooks these days. And electron, don’t forget about electron.