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by Entropy Stew 03/21/2016, 10:17am PDT |
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TDARCOS rambling:
I really loved Perl when I started programming, as Java was a verbose pile, and C++ was equal parts inscrutable and error-prone. Especially C++ for windows, holy shit. C was and is nice, but wasn't appropriate for the web stuff I was doing, and it feels like moving atoms around with tweezers after using a higher level language. PHP was always a degenerate form of Perl, but you could run it on any hosting plan anywhere, and it was very quick to throw together an application with despite its shit nature.
Ruby became popular after that, then became mainstream due to Rails. I love Ruby, but it is so goddamn slow. SO SLOW. Python had always been simmering in the background as well (for me, boiling in the foreground for others). I have not programmed enough python to form an opinion, but I've read enough to know that it's not the font of beauty its proponents claim. Very readable, though, which is probably better.
I'd finally gotten to the point where dynamic languages irritate me when Go came around. Go is dumb and fast and can almost trivially utilize multiple threads. I like it, but wish it weren't quite so dumb (generics pls). That covers server-side, but with the browser there is only one choice: Javascript. You can compile other things to Javascript, though, and people have. Compiling to Javascript became so popular that it finally got a binary format, webasm, that is being worked on together by Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft. Soon enough you'll just be able to change your compiler target to webasm and have your shit run in a browser. So, Javascript may suck, but it has taken over, and you don't even have to exactly use it.
I also occasionally fiddle with Lisp because I am a pervert.
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Pick my new career, Caltrops by nope 01/17/2016, 8:06am PST 
Something where they won't give you a hard time for t-ing up your wasses. NT by Christmas ghost, maybe? 01/17/2016, 9:08am PST
Private Investigator? by Mysterio 01/17/2016, 9:17am PST
How do you get into this by Vested Id 01/17/2016, 7:06pm PST
Ah that's right by Vested Id 01/17/2016, 7:25pm PST
p sure Jessica Jones didn't have to go through all that NT by Fullofkittens 01/18/2016, 6:15am PST
Prostitution. NT by Caltrops 01/17/2016, 10:24am PST
Serious replies, people by nope 01/21/2016, 7:38pm PST
No one will give a shit about a "learn 2 web night school!" cert by The Happiness Engine 01/22/2016, 3:43pm PST
Too late I pulled the trigger! by nope 01/23/2016, 6:09pm PST
You made the right decision. NT by Kenny Mayne 01/23/2016, 10:53pm PST
I talked my way into a job as a software tester 7 years ago by Fullofkittens 01/22/2016, 4:15pm PST
Update: 7 weeks in by nope 03/17/2016, 10:37pm PDT
No one will give a shit about a "learn 2 web night school!" cert, still. NT by The Happiness Engine 03/18/2016, 5:49pm PDT
Thank you! It's good to know what I should be worrying about! NT by nope 03/18/2016, 6:59pm PDT
You will know if you have the ability to program if you can teach yourself by Entropy Stew 03/19/2016, 2:01pm PDT
Those are good reasons to learn JavaScript by but what about the smell? 03/19/2016, 4:37pm PDT
The thing about programming languages is that they are mostly shit by Entropy Stew 03/21/2016, 10:17am PDT
Java was and is fine. by Kenny Mayne 03/21/2016, 12:38pm PDT
Re: Java was and is fine. by dr. no 03/21/2016, 11:31pm PDT
Re: Java was and is fine. by Kenny Mayne 03/22/2016, 6:58am PDT
Re: If someone has a better back end language I'd love to hear it by Entropy Stew 03/22/2016, 11:20am PDT
It appears I did not know what I did not know. You've given me much to consider. by Kenny Mayne 03/22/2016, 7:11pm PDT
Thoughts on Sass? NT by nope 03/21/2016, 4:35pm PDT
None. Not my wheelhouse. I was always more serverside NT by Entropy Stew 03/22/2016, 12:39am PDT
Yeah most of my time is spent practiving on Code Academy projects and by nope 03/20/2016, 2:42pm PDT
Re: Yeah most of my time is spent practiving on Code Academy projects and by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/20/2016, 2:55pm PDT
Buy a real textbook by Rafiki 03/20/2016, 5:29pm PDT
I am told "JavaScript: The Good Parts" is the essential JS book. NT by Fullofkittens 03/21/2016, 11:38am PDT
I thought that one was out of date by Entropy Stew 03/21/2016, 2:02pm PDT
AFAIK the central topic is still relevant by Fullofkittens 03/21/2016, 3:48pm PDT
Movie idea: Peter Faulk reads "JavaScript: the Good Parts" to Fred Savage NT by laudablepuss 03/22/2016, 7:22am PDT
I'd watch it NT by Entropy Stew 03/22/2016, 11:22pm PDT
Any superior alternatives to Komodo Edit and JSFiddle? NT by nope 03/21/2016, 4:36pm PDT
I'd be shocked if atom or VS Code were not better for js than Komodo by Entropy Stew 03/22/2016, 12:44am PDT
both terrible, use Sublime by Ray of Light 03/22/2016, 9:10am PDT
Trump supporter offers advice on text editing tool by Kenny Mayne 03/22/2016, 9:16am PDT
B-b-but I thought it was cool to use the word faggots here????? NT by Shitty Posters Squad, INC 03/22/2016, 9:53am PDT
Is that a corporation or two people posting, one of whom is INC? by Mysterio Lollerson 03/22/2016, 9:53am PDT
is it possible I know more than you about absolutely everything? by Ray of Light 03/22/2016, 11:36pm PDT
When you put it like that, I guess you got me. :( NT by Kenny Mayne 03/23/2016, 8:09am PDT
Don't cramp Jso's style NT by Welcome to Omsk 03/23/2016, 8:48am PDT
You'd think a editor written in js would have first class support for editing js by Entropy Stew 03/22/2016, 11:24am PDT
Agreed, subLimeText is great. NT by Mysterio Lollerson 03/22/2016, 2:26pm PDT
WebStorm NT by Fullofkittens 03/22/2016, 4:18am PDT
JetBrains and MS are the two companies that can build an IDE by Entropy Stew 12/02/2016, 3:34am PST
web vengeance NT by sega soft 03/22/2016, 8:19am PDT
Re: Any superior alternatives to Komodo Edit and JSFiddle? by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 03/22/2016, 5:25pm PDT
gently masturbedit NT by needed another pass 03/22/2016, 6:26pm PDT
Here is a text editor called "lite" that I saw on The Hacker News. by Horus Truthteller 05/10/2020, 9:59am PDT
There's no way to open a folder/project or start a new file. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/10/2020, 10:08am PDT
Yeah, WTF is this? NT by Jack Bauer 05/10/2020, 1:07pm PDT
How did it go, nope? NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/26/2016, 9:22pm PDT
I learned just enough by nope 11/22/2016, 9:26pm PST
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