This is why you should always visualise and multiply by 4 when people ask for an estimate. If someone gives me a ticket that’s expected to take me 1 day I’ll let them know it’s very likely not going to be done in 1 day but rather 4 which I’ll finish comfortably in 3.
Ranking devs is toxic though
Rider is an alternative that’s in my experience better
There are contract breaking fees attached to contracts sometime to prevent switching providers. I’m pretty sure everybody agrees it reduces competition.
I don’t like writing Rust but I choose Rust. I like Microsoft Java also
Making a webapp for myself.
Big E (warhammer 40k)
No, but people are sometimes forced to do these things because of pressure from management and/or lack of infrastructure to do it in any other way.
Definitely don’t endorse it but I have done it. Think of a “Everything is down” situation that can be fixed in 1 minute with SQL.
Raw dog is the fastest way to finish a task.
It’s a trade-off
Works really well with npm. You can get security updates without changing the app.
I like all of the concepts I listed btw. They can all make readability better of course.
You can use all the classes, patterns, functions, methods you want but if it’s not readable it’s garbage.
The borrow checker maaaan
I remember reading the Hello World edition of that one. I haven’t gone through a big project and a couple of small ones with rust so I’ll have to stop talking hahaha.
But yeah writing inheritance heavy code in Java is the absolute worst and not everything needs an interface and not everything has to use the strategy pattern for a single use case. Java promotes overkill dependency spaghetti so I get that, however interfaces work the same as Rust traits and can be used in the exact same way with POJOs so I’m on the fence.
I’ll have to wait and see which one I’ll like more I guess.
I really like TS and Python as a backend language but only for projects that are under 5k lines. As soon as it gets above that refactoring, reference counting and type safety falls off for TS imo.
I’m still a TS fanboy. You can do some crazy type acrobatics in it.
I’m on the boat that rust is a bit more cumbersome to write that Java/C#. I work in .Net and I really want to give Kotlin a go now.
I guess I’ll just have to wait for MS to add the current trendy feature to C# again for the sum types though lol.
At one point I was working in python and made a 30 line script to run tests automatically on file change.
Then if it a test starts failing then I would play one sound once.
Then when fixed I played another sound.
The feedback was both lightning fast and didn’t require leaving the code.
You can still have it as long as your tests run fast.
Underpromise overdeliver