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Have you tried switching to Linux, at home and at work, and only coding in C and C++ and Bash, and working with mostly true nerds on boring things? I'm only a

Have you tried switching to Linux, at home and at work, and only coding in C and C++ and Bash, and working with mostly true nerds on boring things? I'm only a few years into my career, but I'm already depressingly conservative/hyperreactionary with respect to modern technology and feel as you do about most software work. I feel dysphoric toward any web tech, for example, for reasons I can articulate and others I can't. So I'm wondering whether being sick of programming at large is just a matter of years passing or environment.

makz 2y ago
This is good advice. Nowadays I still earn my money from IT but I don’t do any programming. On my free time I’m doing my own stuff at my own pace mostly on Linux and C. It’s wonderful.
Clubber 2y ago
>Have you tried switching to Linux, at home and at work, and only coding in C and C++ and Bash, and working with mostly true nerds on boring things? I've been doing Linux for quite a while. I've really gotten into it the last 5 years. I do all our server builds and maintenance as one of my hats. I do really enjoy working with Linux. I haven't done C,C++ in decades. I did Obj-C when the iPhone first came out and really enjoyed it, particularly with the old school memory management. I like being close to the metal. I've been doing C# for the last 15 years or so and enjoyed it for the first 10 years, but don't like the new iteration of the syntax. It seems like going backwards to me. Let's see how much shit we can put on a single line. That used to be a meme. An old high school buddy of mine is really into ML and I'm trying to absorb his passion, but it's not quite taking. I hope I can get back into it at a personal level. I do miss enjoying it. I've been on Macs since 2008 or so because it's close to *nix. I got spoiled by the hardware. Anyone recommend a laptop that is 16:10 and close to the Apple hardware that runs Linux? My laptop of choice was Thinkpad back in the day, but they all went to 16:9 which is annoying AF to me. 16:10 seems to be making a comeback though.

makz 2y ago

This is good advice. Nowadays I still earn my money from IT but I don’t do any programming. On my free time I’m doing my own stuff at my own pace mostly on Linux and C. It’s wonderful.

Clubber 2y ago

>Have you tried switching to Linux, at home and at work, and only coding in C and C++ and Bash, and working with mostly true nerds on boring things? I've been doing Linux for quite a while. I've really gotten into it the last 5 years. I do all our server builds and maintenance as one of my hats. I do really enjoy working with Linux. I haven't done C,C++ in decades. I did Obj-C when the iPhone first came out and really enjoyed it, particularly with the old school memory management. I like being close to the metal. I've been doing C# for the last 15 years or so and enjoyed it for the first 10 years, but don't like the new iteration of the syntax. It seems like going backwards to me. Let's see how much shit we can put on a single line. That used to be a meme. An old high school buddy of mine is really into ML and I'm trying to absorb his passion, but it's not quite taking. I hope I can get back into it at a personal level. I do miss enjoying it. I've been on Macs since 2008 or so because it's close to *nix. I got spoiled by the hardware. Anyone recommend a laptop that is 16:10 and close to the Apple hardware that runs Linux? My laptop of choice was Thinkpad back in the day, but they all went to 16:9 which is annoying AF to me. 16:10 seems to be making a comeback though.