Actually it's been so stable for me for at least a year (not sure when I switched exactly), that this post kind of surprised me, I thought it was > 1.0 already

I mean if you have a super nice working environment (team etc.), I don't see an issue with staying at the company.

But yeah as you say, if the new company is better in every single way, of course you should move.

despite what Rust cultists will undoubtedly soon come to tell me

And here I am :)

There's a lot of reasons to go with Rust (and least of all performance), especially as web-backend. Top-notch libraries/ecosystem (I work extensively with all kinds of programming languages and most others suck in one way or the other). At this point I dare to say that it has the best ecosystem in this regards. Also a static type-system only being exceeded by Haskell (when talking about general purpose languages, that are actually in use), which makes projects maintainable by a lot of people, especially relevant for an open source project. There's a reason why a lot of high quality projects are either rewriting or starting in Rust or are thinking to switch to... Etc. don't want to throw more Rust evangalism at you, since there's a lot to just google and learn...

Anyway, there were a few changes lately that made federated lemmy better (with the last release especially), the initial bugs I accept. But I agree, they aren't veterans from the valley with multiple years of experience, just a bunch of idealists that had an idea and were persistent enough for years to implement it, I certainly have respect for that. What I don't like, is that they are moderating a little bit too much, not being mostly community focused (among others, to avoid forks). But bringing a federated link aggregator like lemmy to the place where it currently is, at least takes quite a bit of time... So a fork (if really necessary) sounds like the most likely way forward...

That only really works, if the method is self-contained, and written in a language that GPT has seen often (such as python). I stopped using it, because for 1 in 10 successful tries I waste time for the other 9 tries...

Yeah absolutely I quickly get bored playing a computer game or something, but I just love coding (in Rust obviously ^^), creating new things etc.

For reference, I think you want something like this: https://forgefed.org/

I agree with the other comment. It's Open source after all, they could've just crawled the web otherwise.

Private repos on the other hand is a different story.

// This enters the if branch if "myVar" == true
while otherVar == 42 {
    // do something
}

Ah the good old times with C, when things were much more simple (but unsafe...)

literally...

I mean I'm being honest I'm a little bit in love with Rust haha, so I can recommend learning that if you haven't yet, it has teached me the most of how to design nice programs/libs (in an efficient manner) and generally just feels nice to write. And a very relevant side-effect: it seems like it has a rapid growth also on the job-market. I really feel that growth in terms of improving library quality and tooling (rust-analyzer is I think really the best language server by now), not the least seeing ever more often something like this: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/06/rust-fact-vs-fiction-5-insights-from-googles-rust-journey-2022.html)

Either start applying, it's not that seniors aren't in demand.

Or (additionally) what I personally have found interest in, is just diving more and more into open source. I think this actually improves my abilities (and fun/interest) most (writing and exploring open source). I kinda "feel" that in my workplace as often my opinion is asked and I have something new/innovative to offer (that I've learned from a good open source codebase), that ends up being adapted.