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Re:Which Language to Learn? by alienfilesystem on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:35PM (#24640595)
Thank you for your comments. I'm not sure how to take the "lack imagination" bit, but I'll accept it.

I've automated what I'm allowed to automate, which is all user, group, file sharing, Exchange Online/O365 stuff, as well as backups, etc.

I don't like Google any more than MS, to be honest. Sadly, it seems that wherever I work, it's either O365 or Google Cloud offerings.

Why do you think moving away from MS at this time is bad? I'm curious.

Sadly, there are not a heap of good IT jobs where I live, so I'm limited in what I can do and where I can work, hence my desire to learn something like Python where I can branch out and maybe take on consulting jobs. I'm also hearing that things like Docker, Kubernetes, etc. are starting to wear thin with serverless objects being the new thing.

I appreciate your comments.

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Re:Which Language to Learn? by majkinetor on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:12PM (#24641724)
> I'm not sure how to take the "lack imagination" bit, but I'll accept it.

No pun intended. I automated stuff in PowerShell more then decade almost every day, and there is no calming down visible. You could:

- Automate your dev/main Windows machine - control panel, installed apps, etc.

- Automate web stuff (check here for awesome sample [1])

- Create reports of various kinds

- Automate databases on various aspects - backups, seeders, metrics

- Whatever really... every day something else

> Why do you think moving away from MS at this time is bad? I'm curious.

Because MS is the best company today since it opened - bunch of x-platform tools - .NET, PowerShell, Secret management, VSCode, Terminal, WSL ... clearly light years away from MS during 90's or first 2 decade of 20's.

BTW, forgot C#. With .NET 5 this is probably one of the best programming languages and ecosystems around.

> I'm also hearing that things like Docker, Kubernetes, etc. are starting to wear thin with serverless objects being the new thing.

Hype or overkill for 99.9% of companies. Literary almost 0 companies need k8s. The complexity involved is not worth it on premise. Docker is more useful, but also requires a lot of involvement. I had big gov projects in all, and didn't see any benefit compared to projects not using them, contrary, yet another realm you need to handle.

As for serverless, I don't know what to make of it ATM.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/choco-bot/a14b1e5bfaf70839b338eb1ab7...

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