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Hi y'all - I'm a lurker who decided to de-lurk this week and post some stuff I've written. I've been self-learning completely in isolation and felt it was time to start interacting more with people who know more than I do. First step Dev.to, next step meetups!
I'm learning to code via Rust and TypeScript, and my absolute favorite tool I've found lately is yarn-upgrade-all - to think I was doing that by hand! Tsk tsk.
Rust is a pretty hardcore first language! I've been learning it on and off for a year and it's only now that I'm starting to feel like I'm getting the hang of it. Then again, I think that learning it as an experienced dev might be harder in some ways -- I kept on wanting field ownership to work like attribute ownership in Ruby, and oh boy does it not.
I think you hit the nail on the head - it's a function of what you're familiar with. I disagree with the notion that Rust is inherently more difficult to learn than anything else - it just pushes the complexity up front instead of just letting you write something broken anyway and having to deal with it yourself. You need to learn to do it "right" before you can do it at all, but get over the hump once and you're good to go. I think it's easier to use because you have this fantastic compiler showing you what you're doing wrong. There's much less trepidation around trying something outside your comfort zone because you know
rustchas your back. I'm now surprised when other languages let me do things I knowrustcwould have a problem with and it's a pretty good indicator I might (but not necessarily) need to rethink my implementation.Welcome, Ben! It's great to have you in the community. :) I can understand how lonely self-learning can be. I'm part of a bootcamp — Flatiron School — and I've at times been very conflicted. I'd say one of the top reasons I'm a part of it is simply the community I get to interact with.
I've heard so many cool things about Rust! Is that the first language you've been learning?
Thanks Karyme! I've thought about bootcamps many times before - what holds me back is the time commitment. I hold a non-tech 9-5 job and can't quite swing several months of no income. Lunch breaks and evenings for now will have to do. I take if you've found it worthwhile?
It's not the first language I tried (that was actually Ruby, in high school), but it's the first one I've built anything significant with so I'm considering it my "first" language. It rekindled my enthusiasm for the craft after years of waffling - I can't recommend it enough! The only issue is that now it's difficult to tear myself away - it's appropriate in a wide range of domains and it's hard to shake off the "well, I COULD be doing this in Rust!" feeling.
Hi Karyme,
You should check out WomenWhoCodeDC. We’re group of women who get together to code and network. There are even free classes and we’re on Slack. We even have a Python Beginners course on Wednesday.
Candice
Hi, how do you like Typescript? I was thinking of learning it. I want to be a frontend developer.
Hi Candice! I love it - static, strongly-typed languages are my comfort zone, and TypeScript lets me feel more confident about writing correct JavaScript. If you're new to types, though, the general consensus is to learn JavaScript first and add types later.
I asked this question here last week, there was a good discussion:
dev.to/deciduously/typescript-befo...
Hey folks! Long time lurker who just joined. I'm a full-stack web developer who's been developing professionally for about a decade, and who made anime and fan fiction sites for funsies for about [a faintly embarrassing] number of years before that.
Nowadays I work mostly in Rails, Node, Vue, and React. My favorite kind of front-end, though, is still an old-school server-rendered one. You can do so much with just CSS and PJAX! And new awesome things are being added to CSS every day! (I learned about w3.org/TR/css-multicol-1/ last night and I'm still starry-eyed.)
Right now I'm also learning Rust for funsies. It's really different working in a compiled language but I'm having a lot of fun with it.
Welcome!
Welcome to the community Melvin :) Happy to see someone else from home here ;)
Hi Kinyanjui!! Thank you :). Same here
Hi everyone, my name is Meag Doherty and I'm a user experience designer working with the U.S. federal government. This place looks interesting and more welcoming than other dev boards. Currently, thinking about diversity and inclusion, promoting safe spaces in tech, improving the designer <> dev handoff, and graph databases for user research.
Welcome, really exciting topics. Can’t wait to hear what you have to say.
Hi guys! Cécile here, French web developer, usually working somewhere between the front-end (JavaScript) and back-end (Java 8) of a stack, it really depends.
I'm looking forward to joining this awesome community. I was more of a lurker when it comes to dev.to (following on Twitter, reading and so on) but today I decided to actually sign up and be there!
In the future, I would love to write a short article about a tool or some experience I want to share. It could help me get started because I feel like I'm being a little bit too silent and might have things to share here, even though I am no expert. Let's find out. :)
I was driven here by the global mood which seems very benevolent, and that can be quite rare in our work field. I hope I won't be disappointed!
I stumbled upon here today and was hooked with the quality and quantity of dev content. I have been part of many other dev communities and hence feel right at home here too.
I am a CS undergrad right now working my way through the principles and methods of Machine Learning and AI in general. Since I have been very interested in Games as a child, working with computers and other technologies makes me relive my childhood dream.
Hoping to meet other people interested in similar works and fields.
Happy to meet and help everyone.
Cheers,
Siddharth
Hi All, my name is Dariya, I'm from Ukraine and I work for software company Anadea. This place looks like a cool and friendly dev community where I can share my thoughts and learn from others. I'm excited to become a part of it!
Wishing everyone a great week ahead!
Hello, everyone! My name is Rafaela Ferro, I'm a designer and frontend developer at Deemaze Software (a company in Portugal). I'm currently trying to shift from design+dev to fulltime dev.
And one of my coworkers showed me dev.to because I usually search for content on Medium, but this seems way more focused! :D I'm really excited to start exploring the platform.
Hi, I am Adi from Indonesia. I am new :). I like everything about programming but sometimes trapped in the euphoria of learning. I like programming languages that are c-like.
Looking forward to learn about cool things here :)
Hi all,
The name's Thomas Melville hailing from Ireland and working for the big corporate Ericsson.
I'm also a lurker who finally posted this week. Dev.to is a great community and resource, I plan on posting more stuff as I learn more. You know what they say, "everyday is a school day!" (That's also one of my teams values)
As well as the technical side of our job I'm interested in the human side and enjoy reading psychology books. One of my favourites is "Mistakes were made, but not by me"
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