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Discussion on: What language or tool are you curious about, but have not found the time to use or learn?

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Kostia Palchyk • Edited

My short list:

Langs

Libs

  • Ramda & whole Fantasy Land
  • MonetJs
  • SWR/react-query

Tools

  • GhostCMS
  • Svelte
  • Nx
  • NestJS

Other

  • some ML
  • AWS and other cloud services/platforms

Plus a ton more I don't remember now — people create new cool stuff daily!

And what is on your list, @ben ?

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Ben Halpern

And what is on your list, @ben ?

Rust/WASM definitely near the top. I also played around with Flutter when it was new but sort of put it on the shelf to let it mature. I'd love to revisit that.

But gaining a better understanding of containers/VMs/etc. is higher on my list— because that would help me contribute better ideas to the infrastructure side of DEV.

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Kostia Palchyk • Edited

I've found that often it takes a few hours to try some new lang/tool/technique

While postponing it in my list lasts for months or even years 😓

I remember when I learned new cool kid's words "repository" and "git".
Kept hearing that all around, but couldn't find courage to check em out.
Took me years to finally sit down & try 😀

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Shaiju T

Nice 😄, How you are planning to get better understanding of containers/VMs/etc ? Do you have any course in mind or learning by reading documentation ?

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Heiker

Did someone said fantasy land? Some time ago I found a series of posts that talked in great detail about that stuff: Fantas, Eel, and Specification.

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Kostia Palchyk • Edited

Thank you, Heiker! Bookmarked it.
Have you started using it after reading this?
Where you doing FP before that?

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Heiker

Have you started using it after reading this?

Yes. But funny enough we (all of us) already use some of that stuff, we just don't know it.

Where you doing FP before that?

A little bit. Not too much because "hardcore" FP looks very weird in javascript.

I've been writing about FP in javascript for quite a while now, I put everything I know here.