Ben Halpern

Posted on Apr 27, 2022

What do you wish you had time to learn?

#discuss #career

There are only so many hours in the day — which tools and/or disciplines in software development do you wish you could make time for?

Top comments (89)

Michael Tharrington • Apr 27 '22

I would love to learn how to use Unreal Engine 5.

Tawhid • Apr 27 '22

If you know C++ you can learn easily, when I started learning UE4
Cpp seemed extremely difficult to me but after learning cpp and other gamedev principles it was easy to pick up!

Leandro RR • Apr 27 '22

yes and maybe work in a game company

Lee • Apr 29 '22

Always, every time I play an awesome game I wish I had something to do with creating it.

SPABOI • Apr 28 '22

Definitely. It’s one of my favorite game engines in the market. Really hope to get some time one day to learn game development too.

Adam Crockett • Apr 27 '22

Same! In another life maybe

abraham2 • Apr 28 '22

Me, too! I tried to install it on Raspberry Pi Desktop OS, but it gave me a fsync support error

Sherry Day • Apr 27 '22

I've really enjoyed following along at Wasm Builders, but just can't find the time to get into Web Assembly.

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Learn, connect, and showcase everything to do with WebAssembly; an emerging technology powering web, cloud, IOT, and more!

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Glenn A Miller • Apr 30 '22 • Edited

I'm using Rust to learn WASM. It's been great so far.

Liviu Lupei • Apr 27 '22

I would like to learn the following things:

To be more human
To not judge based on nationality, skin color, years of experience, etc.
To learn more about the users of the products I'm working on

CoderZordar • Apr 28 '22

lol poster meant in tech field, but okay. Best of luck!

Liviu Lupei • Apr 28 '22

Hi @coderzordar
Thank you for pointing that out.

But I did notice that, I always read the posts before commenting.

And I wrote that comment to point out that as a technical person, I should also focus on other areas, and not just learn 84358 libraries and frameworks.

We're not robots.

CoderZordar • Apr 28 '22

Yup, I understand.

Constantin • Apr 28 '22

Once the robot uprising has happened you will be sorry for this racist comment against robots

Bernd Wechner • Apr 27 '22

To play guitar.

Chris Greening • Apr 27 '22 • Edited

literally everything 😭

José Muñoz • Apr 28 '22

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, AI in general

Adriano Lupossa • Apr 28 '22

A lot of things, so I build a roadmap for technologies that I want to learn:

The rules are only learn what I will use to not forget and what I can't learn now I will learn in the next year.

Electron [ ✓ ]
Angular
Typescript [ ✓]
Deno [ ✓ ]
Design systems in depth
Canvas e WebGL
Unreal Engine (C++)
Machine Learn and IA

Sometimes I reorganize some items and add new ones, based in my daily needs and the market.

Lars Rye Jeppesen • Apr 29 '22

Angular is so amazing. The most modern of the bigger frameworks. Working with observables and typescript is just amazing.

Ngrx/store is imho by far the best state management library. Typed, observable based.

Bobo Brussels • Apr 27 '22

I'd love to really take the time learn web design instead of just stumbling around.

Pontakorn Paesaeng • Apr 28 '22

TypeScript but on backend side.
Backend development
Deno
More things to do beside being a frontend dev. I would like to learn about game development too so I can choose what I want to do for my career.

Lars Rye Jeppesen • Apr 29 '22

Typescript in backend is so nice to work with, compare do JS.
I feel it especially shines in the backend.

I'm a TS backend developer

Pontakorn Paesaeng • May 3 '22

A problem I found about TS is there are so many ways to setup a project. Some of them use ts-node and some use "build and watch". I hope I can learn about that in my internship.

Matteo • May 3 '22

have a look at nest.js

Medea • Apr 27 '22

I would like to learn more JS

Felipe Armoni • Apr 27 '22

Hey, maybe I can help you there.

I've been working with Software Development and Javascript / Typescript for some time now, and last year my manager introduced me to Functional Programming (FP). I liked it very much, and it completely changed the way I wrote code.

Maybe it can be interesting to you too.

These are some resources I found:

Medea • Apr 27 '22

Thanks, I’ll check these out!

Gracie Gregory (she/her) • Apr 27 '22

Italian! I speak French and never use it and I'd like to add another language to my arsenal that I'd get little practical use out of in Portland, Oregon 😆 I signed up for Rosetta Stone this week so hopefully I'll at least get a few basic phrases and words under my belt — it's such a beautiful sounding language.

Jean-Michel Fayard 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇴 • Apr 27 '22

Try out lyricstraining.com/
You will hear music videos in italian, along with 80% of the lyrics.
You task is to find the 20% remaining lyrics.
Best way to learn the language by hearing it :)

Ishaan Sheikh • Apr 27 '22

Machine learning and AI.

Rishabh Rawat • Apr 27 '22

Oh where do I start. I mostly want to focus on backend related technologies and concepts without completely ignoring the frontend aspect.

I'd say networking (DNS, TCP/IP, how router/switches work, wireshark), AWS services & how they work in coherence, Threejs, how to create elegant UI/UX without riding the frontend train to an endless destination are some of things on my learning goals list.

Ece • May 9 '22

Since I'm a self thought developer, I wish I had time for an extensive CS course. I'm a law graduate and I got into development after coincidentally attending a course, then I got a job as a junior frontend developer and I've been developing projects with React and RN ever since (3 years). So I kind of learned the stuff I need as I go, that's why I'm pretty weak when it comes to the fundamentals. I am looking into some simplified courses but even that is intimidating lol