Re:Programmers are not different, they need simple UIs
by bsder on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @09:01PM
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> And now people think they are going to be left behind if they don't learn Angular, Rust, Shiny7 and all of that.
The question you always need to ask is: "Why is <this> better than what I have now?" If you can't answer that DON'T LEARN IT.
10% better isn't enough to take up brain space. Your proficiency with your current tools easily exceeds that. 100% better probably is good enough.
The only thing I've seen in the last 5 years that has been good enough to make me start learning it is Rust.
Looking at how nice Glium made programming OpenGL was the final push. Programming OpenGL is painful on a good day, and Glium managed make a lot of the pain go away. The fact that nobody manged to do this in any other language caught my attention.
Maybe Rust isn't actually required, but I'm willing to learn something just to listen to a community/ecosystem that can produce something so nice.
The question you always need to ask is: "Why is <this> better than what I have now?" If you can't answer that DON'T LEARN IT.
10% better isn't enough to take up brain space. Your proficiency with your current tools easily exceeds that. 100% better probably is good enough.
The only thing I've seen in the last 5 years that has been good enough to make me start learning it is Rust.
Looking at how nice Glium made programming OpenGL was the final push. Programming OpenGL is painful on a good day, and Glium managed make a lot of the pain go away. The fact that nobody manged to do this in any other language caught my attention.
Maybe Rust isn't actually required, but I'm willing to learn something just to listen to a community/ecosystem that can produce something so nice.