• Pika@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    For coding, I wish I had known that I will need to basically relearn the entire thing every 2-4 years due to frameworks and language design changes.

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      14 hours ago

      Tell me you’re a front end programmer, without telling me you’re a front end programmer.

      I had to do FE for a freelance work, I learned Angular built the thing and delivered, a few year later I wanted to do some other stuff went to check Angular documentation and it had changed completely, plus no one else was using it because everyone had migrated to React.

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      22 hours ago

      This is why I only use languages and libraries that are “finished.” C, Pascal, Euphoria to name a few.

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      23 hours ago

      Absolutely isn’t true though, unless you only learned JavaScript for some reason and god help you if that is what you call programming

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      22 hours ago

      Yep. Redesign the entire library every few weeks because you discovered a better architecture.