What thing really raised the bar for your expectations of developer experience when you first went to use it?
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What thing really raised the bar for your expectations of developer experience when you first went to use it?
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I'll name a few. Ruby really did capture me in this way. Being able to type
irbinto a terminal and then type"hello".upcaseand seeHELLOright there was really refreshing and spoke to me. I've been writing Ruby ever since.In my brief experimentation with Flutter, I was quite impressed by the attention to developer experience that the developers are going for with this environment. I haven't done any production-oriented work, but if I went back to Flutter the experience would be a big reason for it.
I agree, Ben. I have done some Flutter work and it was a pleasure to work with.
Also "did you mean ... ?", Gotchas, syntactic sugar and Active Record in general. Coming from the .Net world where we have to write getters and setters even for the simplest model to this magical world where you can just code a db and a few relationships and everything just magically works. I sometimes get imposter syndrome while writing Ruby / RoR because everything is so easy and I feel like anyone could write a website in a few days. Of course it's not true, but it goes to show how uncomfortably good Ruby makes me feel.
Unclear when you last worked with .NET.
T PropName { get; set; }is not really that difficult.Never said it wasn't easy, just that you /have/ to. Even if it's small, my point is that it's redundant. In Ruby on Rails, you don't have to do that, it automatically generates most of the methods you need just by reading your database.
For most of my time, I was writing in Python.
I really loved it and was able to argue for Python for hours.
I thought would never prefer another language when I had a choice.
Well... I was wrong.
In current job, I met Ruby (or Rails, to be specific) for the first time.
It seemed nice, easy to learn after Python, had some nice features.
I didn't realize how much comfortable and elegant it is before I did some work on my hobby project in Python.
It's still good, but there were multiple moments when I thought "well, I could write this much nicely in Ruby, shame Python doesn't do this".
Ruby.
The idiomatic methods, the elegant syntax!
I’ve shed happy tears TWICE after looking at arguably the most elegant code I’ve ever seen in my life. And they were written in Ruby. 🙂
Elm because of error messages usefulness and no runtime exceptions guarantees.
I'm shocked more seasoned JS developers would learn TypeScript over Elm, it's uniquely concise and consistent, enforcing a functional approach to programming.
Don't be shocked. Elm is great and I would much more prefer to use it instead of Typescript. However getting started with Typescript is so much easier and Javascript code can be migrated gradually towards it, it is better suited for projects that cannot be built from ground up.
I recently learned that you can get some exceptions if you screw up Regex, infinitely recurse, or incorrectly encode/decode JSON. There's a few more cases people have discovered as well, but I'm not that good at programming language trivia
I see. However even with these edge cases I would be really confident with the output. Cheers for mentioning those.
WheelJS:
dev.to/bytebodger/announcing-wheel...
Angular (v9.1.0 as of writing) has been delightful to work with so far. It has an awesome CLI that really empowered me hit the ground running on my new personal site. I am also really keen on learning Ruby.
I always thought that Angular would be the hardest of the front-end frameworks to learn, but it was much friendlier than React.
I agree!
Programming Language should make developer life easier.
-It should be easy to learn.
-It should be maintainable.
-It should be easy to read, some languages have short syntax and its hard to find out were it starts and ends.
-It should have meaningful syntax and methods.
C#Meets all these points , I think its better thanJavaand other languages.Tool should increase productivity:
-It should help locate files fast.
-It should help find Methods and Variables , References fast.
-It should make debugging easy.
-It should increase productivity.
-It should help build app using rapid development.
-It should make maintenance easier even in large enterprise projects.
Visual StudioandVisual Studio Codemeets all these.What you think ? 😄
The only downside of Visual Studio to me is all the magic going on in the background with csproj/sln/msbuild files. I also really like C#, especially w/ the
dotnetcli.I wish i can have that kind of enthusiasm with c#. 😂
Ahaha a
For VSCode critiques, I cannot count how many times I have to reload (both the window and TS server). It can also hangs and sometimes slow.
For me, it is Asp.Net Core, with Razor Pages raised my interest in 2019. Since, I learned it and wrote some nice web apps.
I'd say Ruby in terms of a simple and expressive language.
I'd say Meteor as a small, but awesome way to develop web applications.
Netlify. It was unbelievable how simple it was.
Same thing for Now.sh :thumbs-up:
Depending on how complex your API and CRUD are, Now.sh might be simpler and support more languages. But for SSG, it has to be Netlify this time.
React Hooks. Thrilling experience with the functional programming approach, plus it takes away the pain of writing verbose class components. useEffect just saves me the mess in componentDidUpDate and code reusability makes things cleaner.
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