@voodoo14 I actually always kinda liked Sheldon tbh. Though the sleepy kitty routine was hella obvs

@Oktokolo WASM 🤣

@Oktokolo devil's advocate: at the end of the day though it's just a layer over JavaScript and not a from-the-ground-up strongly typed language designed for anything other than the web browser...

The generics are a bit of a train-wreck tbh and I don't see those getting properly fixed any time soon

Often JavaScript is just the easiest language to use for a task. It has really nice string and array methods relative to other languages. Does it scale great: not always. But a lot of the people I've heard say that about it have never even been a part of writing a genuinely scalable system that isn't 9/10 parts superglue and bandaids.

I've said this before but I will say it again: user choices (often single button clicks) stored in a sliders table as binary arrays

@DubbaThony tbh if you genuinely need a full eco-system it can be better. Most companies like to think they do...

Have you tried OVH? Unless you're enterprise level or you just want experience with certain cloud tech it's almost always better to configure that stuff yourself on a VM that doesn't link directly to a super-billionaire's pocket-book

@Root that honestly sounds really terrible. Very best wishes and thoughts going out to you in your HR endeavour 🙏

@cb219 when I reread my message I am not sure if I meant what I meant or the opposite. Either way I was right. Therefore Haskell 😉

Stuff like http interceptors makes me want to write functional code where every function has to be connected to the input and output of every other

@CodingPeasant at least it's not a three letter acronym

How about longest you've worked without SOAP? 😉🤣

Picking up from your other post and making an educated guess: it seems like you are underemployed and it's making people around you feel inadequate and threatened. Imo it seems like you would be better off in a higher paid position where you could be around piers who "do the thing". Feel free to disregard if that doesn't seem accurate but the patterns seem to be there based on your posts.

@Oktokolo I was talking about how it feels to live in poverty while putting your soul into coding to lift yourself out of it. Sorry you couldn't relate.

@AlgoRythm wage control

@Lensflare it's the point at which the output changes when you observe it where you really start to question...

I like what I do and though I've only just joined a new team I like them a lot. I do find it incredibly stressful tho

Speaking as a duck: I can do all of them barely adequately

Hiding your errors under the metaphorical mattress

Young Elon was a lot better looking imo

Even before I noticed the typo this worried me

@Oktokolo maybe check yours instead, eh?

@Oktokolo or perhaps my privilege was learning to code while I could barely afford a roof over my head and every minute was a living stress hell wondering how I would balance paying bills and eating with finding the time to code to pull myself out of where I was?

That privilege right?

@Oktokolo but yeah, I guess because when you programmed you had less good hardware in general that's pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and the kids today are just lazy and entitled, right?

@Oktokolo I certainly wouldn't have called myself lazy at that point. Quite the opposite. But I suppose we simply differ in our experiences in some forms or others...

I recall being utterly mentally exhausted after expending all my free energy trying to figure out exactly what it was SO wanted from me at that point.

Perhaps that was my privilege?

@max19931 it seems to be a point of general consensus. I don't go a day without messages from recruiters and when I decide to leave a place I get interviews immediately and job offers shortly afterwards. I don't think I am that amazing as a dev so this alone seems evidence of a shortage to me. My current place have been looking for a suitable dev for months and can't find any.

@Oktokolo this sort of right-wing deal with it thing I don't hold with tbh. Personally I remember about 8 years ago I was just starting out. I was extremely poor at the time picking up freelance web work for pennies working on a £300 laptop that literally could not run tools like Visual Studio or Atom. I also couldn't afford any of the paid resources online or go to conferences etc so I had little to no knowledge of how things work in industry. I remember vividly asking questions on there and getting unexplained downvotes. I remember the attitudes which were massively centred around industry insiders and I remember very strongly that this was a place that didn't want to assist me in learning about its myriad rules, spoken and unspoken. I powered through that and am now finally doing pretty well and edit review queues, answer questions and generally consider myself an 'insider' but I have never, never forgotten how it felt to be that new kid.

@Oktokolo then there should be some way of controlling the questions that show up in searches without shitting all over the hopes and dreams of people new to the industry or even just the site

A lot of people use downvotes to mean something like "this is a basic/junior" question which is dumb and discourages new people entering the field at a time there is a shortage. Maybe that's what they want but it's pretty shitty in my view

@fraktalisman who would have thought a site specifically from programming would be full of people who think like robots 😉