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> Curious which languages you use that don't have this problem? None. It's why I'm burnt out and want to so something different. Not something different from m
by cesarbs 12y ago
> Curious which languages you use that don't have this problem?
None. It's why I'm burnt out and want to so something different. Not something different from my current job. Something different from developing software.
I've lost count of how many times I've spent entire work days battling against the environment which is supposed to help me write the code I need to, to make a customer happy. Entire days of trying to figure out why IIS is acting crazy, or why Visual Studio is crashing, or why is Windows so damn slow all of a sudden. Entire days of trying to align the planets so that service A can talk to service B, because for some reason there's a cryptic SSL error that's not giving me any helpful information as to what's happening. Or entire days just pulling things from a dozen different sources and figuring out where to place each other so they can work together.
I've recently been to the Living Computer Museum in Seattle. You can play around with old computers there. I was fascinated by the old machines where you'd boot into a REPL. The shell was a REPL to the language you programmed the system in. I think despite all the advances we've made in the past decades and all the great performing technology we have nowadays, we've lost that essence of simplicity along the way.
- woah 12y agoSounds like you have a problem with the shitty ms stack. Have to do some c# at work and I feel your pain.
- jnbiche 12y ago> Windows so damn slow all of a sudden VS is an awesome development environment, but I was having your problems with Windows and programs running under Windows for most of my adult life. I switched to Linux full-time at about 5-6 years ago, and I've been happy ever since. I can leave the OS running for weeks with no issues, and it would probably go for months but I'll turn the power off. Oh, and with Linux, if you don't run a graphical desktop environment like Gnome or KDE (which most distros have the option of doing), then you boot into a REPL you can program the system in (Bash shell). Windows used to have the same with DOS, but no more...