Re:Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice...
by scarface74 on Sunday October 20, 2019 @01:20PM
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I don’t know Ruby. But I can tell you the difference between having the rails of the compiler and type safe language and having those rails taken away in a language like Javascript and Python caused a lot of heartache early on.
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Re:Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice...
by candybar on Sunday October 20, 2019 @06:38PM
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This is fair too but I think most experienced engineers for whom stack is a valid consideration have some experience with at least one dynamically typed language and one statically typed language and can self-select out of roles if they have a strong preference either way. And I don't know anyone for whom this was an actual blocker as opposed to an annoyance (in either direction) that they got used to after a while. On the whole, I think it's less likely for this to be a serious issue than, say, the details wrt how the system is architected and how the organization is run, some of which you won't really get to know until you start.