Last year I used mainly crystal. This year I’m thinking pharo smalltalk, if I can pick it up in time

I also want to do visualizations, not sure how possible that is with smalltalk.

  • RiskableEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Haha, well… I have plenty of self-esteem but not Rust-specific self-esteem. I still have imposter syndrome with that language.

    I’m a top notch expert in Python and JS though! 😁👍

    I wrote PyMinifier which required such a deep understanding of Python it kinda broke my brain writing it for a while, haha. I eventually figured everything out though and got an even deeper understanding of the language and its features.

    For JS it has just been years and years and years of knowing 100 ways to do what I want in JS but none ever seeming to be, “correct”. Then eventually I realized there’s no best way to do basically anything in JS and that’s when the true enlightenment came 🤣

    If you look at anyone’s JS code and think to yourself, “ugh, there’s got to be a better way to do this” chances are you’re wrong. All the ways will be equally shitty for any number of different reasons! 😆

    • Iapar@feddit.org
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      29 days ago

      I am glad to hear that :) I have friends who don’t cherish their accomplishments so maybe I was just in that headspace. Sorry for assuming.

      Yeah, I started to learn to code with JS and the whole thing seemed to be, and I don’t intent to be insulting, amateurish. Not something I would expected from engineers who try to be efficient and pride themselves with that.

      Kinda lost interest in the whole thing because everything seemed so needlessly complicated and fast changing.

      But a few weeks ago I started to pick up rust and it seems to have a lot more thought put into it.

      The installation process is straight forward, the compiler pretty much tells you what you did wrong, tools are easy to set up and the name of the language is cool^^

      • RiskableEnglish
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        29 days ago

        fast changing

        This happens because JS is such a shit language! There’s no best way (or even good way) to solve any given problem. This results in everyone reinventing the wheel every goddamned day.

        Someone like you and me thinks to themselves, “this is such crap!” And they’re right! 🤣 So they come up with a new way of doing things that’s just a little bit better and they post it publicly.

        Then some huge amount of new JS developers (there’s always a steady stream) and a few old ones think, “hey, this isn’t a bad idea!” So they start using the new thing. Then it becomes the hot new thing and suddenly huge amounts of JS code is depending on it.

        Then people start to realize that this new way doesn’t quite work so well in certain situations so they add on to it by making new utilities/GUI libs. Others see the wisdom in this and adopt these new tools.

        These new “solutions” build and grow in complexity until new JS devs working with the new paradigm think, “this is such crap!” And they’re right!

        😂