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Coreutils-Rs Are We Chasing Language Hype over Solving Real Problems?(dayvster.com)
4 points by dayvster 1y ago|0 comments
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by dayvster 1y ago
This article begs a more important question, is the burden of understanding the article / tutorial on the reader or is the burden of making it understandable on the writter? I think a reasonable amount of knowledge about the topic bein
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by dayvster 1y ago
Ah I haven't lived in germany for about 7 years now, it has come a long way then you say? That's amazing and super cool, didn't even know those things existed there.
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by dayvster 1y ago
I appreciate you pointing that out, you’re right that this post is very much colored by my own experience. I don’t mean to suggest curiosity or hacker culture is gone entirely, more that in my circles it feels a lot harder to find than it u
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by dayvster 1y ago
Curiosity is key at least to me if you can find something that sparks your curiosity ambition will always follow.
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by dayvster 1y ago
Hah that's a cool and creative exercise. Love the writing style as well
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by dayvster 1y ago
It's a real shame how software that starts out really well, always adopts horrible and unreasonable monetization tactics once adoption is high enough
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Dev Culture Is Dying the Curious Developer Is Gone(dayvster.com)
4 points by dayvster 1y ago|6 comments
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by dayvster 1y ago
From tinkerers to metric seekers: How the shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity.
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by dayvster 1y ago
Oh thanks for the tip, appreciate it. I see it can even do file previews with kitty which is perfect as I already use kitty as my default terminal.
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by dayvster 1y ago
My only issue with it is that it does not come with vim keybindings by default, I love to have consistent keybindings across my system / TUI tools
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by dayvster 1y ago
I wouldn't necessarily put it like that no. I'd say all languages have features that fit certain situations but should be avoided in other situations. It's like a well equiped workshop, just because you have access to a chain
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by dayvster 1y ago
Excellent question, I guess it depends on the team mostly how they define which features they need and which are better avoided. As for why not just go for C. You can write C++ fully as if it were C, you can not ever turn C into C++
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by dayvster 1y ago
This is true and I will concede this point. Appreciate your feedback! However if I may raise my counter point I like to have a rule that C++ should be written mostly as if you were writing C as much as possible until you need some of it&#x2
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by dayvster 1y ago
Author of the article here. Really appreciate and value everyone's feedback on this. I can not overstate my excitement that my blog post has generated this much discussion and debate.
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by dayvster 1y ago
Hi author of the article here. I've been a software developer for nearly 2 decades at this point, contributed to several rewrites and oversaw several rewrites of legacy software. From my experience I can assure you that rewriting a leg