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Yeah it's clearly more than just experience. It's at least experience + actually learning + actually caring. I wouldn't rule out natural talent either, though I have seen plenty of smart people with poor programming taste.

For example I worked on a C++ SDK where the guy that wrote it was clearly very smart... But he had also written an enormous god object using CRTP to inherit about 20 classes. The aim was to make it somehow modular, but it absolutely wasn't. Clearly poor taste.

Maybe it's like religion. There are plenty of very smart people that believe in an imaginary friend. It's almost orthogonal to "smartness". Maybe taste is the same.

I mean, sure... But for most users of GitHub actions "it's easy and free" is a huge benefit, easily outweighing any technical advantages Buildkite might have.

Python's performance is too poor to do anything serious. Go and look at the screenshots from Pygame. They look like ZX Spectrum era games.

Compare that to something like PixiJS.

I don't see why you couldn't have relations in a object model database. Just allow fields that are references to other objects or their keys.

I would teach Typescript. Being able to write the types down and hover things to see what types they are will definitely help them.

I think C would put them off. I also wouldn't go with Python, in case they want to do things like write games or make websites, which are common tasks you can do with Typescript but not very well with Python.

ORMs are a pain and so is hand rolling SQL queries and doing the mapping manually.

I definitely think there's scope for NoSQL databases where the database "shape" matches the normal struct style of programming languages. Kind of like how JSON does and XML doesn't.

But it seems like all we got was MongoDB and Firebase which are both shit.

Are there any good NoSQL databases? MongoDB and Firebase don't even have schemas.

You don't need ORMs to prevent SQL injection. Prepared statements have existed for decades.

I always like "by example"s for learning languages - here's Rust's.

I'd probably make a project with it. Maybe a CLI tool using clap_derive and some crate that does something neat that you want to do. Depends what you're interested in I guess.

I wouldn't recommend trying to do leetcode problems with Rust because they are obsessed with linked lists and linked lists are awkward in Rust.

Also I wouldn't recommend making a game or GUI app with Rust yet since the ecosystems there are immature.

A microcontroller project using Embassy is probably a fun way to learn too but I haven't actually tried it yet.

How does it integrate Slack and WhatsApp, given they don't have official APIs? All reverse engineered?

Well they're open source so we're not losing them yet. Especially with uv, it's pretty clear that it is such a vast improvement over the clusterfuck of pip that a community fork is virtually guaranteed if it is ever necessary.

Yeah I feel like it was more than 3 years ago but I guess it's been a long 3 years!

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/08/05/nll-by-default/

Yeah I think the reputation was probably deserved early in Rust's life, but as time has gone on it has gotten a lot easier to write, especially with the non-lexical lifetimes update 3 years ago.