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Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers by nicolas_t on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:41AM (#35194664)
I haven't met a good professional programmer working in webdev who didn't know their way around linux. I've met plenty of bad programers who got into this field for money, didn't know how their way around unix, were barely able to do fizz buzz and would be better doing something else. I haven't hired them though. Not knowing one's way around linux is a sign of lack of curiosity and passion for the topic.

It's obviously different in some fields (like gamedev) where the code produced by the dev is not supposed to run in a linux environment.

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Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers by maccard on Friday March 17, 2023 @06:11AM (#35195138)
I work in gamedev and all our servers run on Linux. Theres a world of difference between knowing your target environment, and knowing a laundry list of shell commands that you can pipe together. "Knowing Linux" falls into the second camp in my experience
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Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers by ZephyrBlu on Friday March 17, 2023 @08:05AM (#35195941)
> Not knowing one's way around linux is a sign of lack of curiosity and passion for the topic

Complete bullshit. The only thing it's a sign of is that you're not curious or passionate about linux.

Knowing about and being interested in linux may be a positive signal, but the opposite is not a negative signal.

Knowing linux is not a requirement to be a good professional programmer working in webdev.

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Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers by neilalexander on Friday March 17, 2023 @08:27AM (#35196181)
Exactly this. I feel like a lot of operating system enthusiasts forget that the operating system is, to many people, merely another tool to enable them to do something else. You can absolutely be enthusiastic about achieving an end result and not give a damn about the tools that got you there.
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Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers by UncleEntity on Friday March 17, 2023 @09:45AM (#35196973)
I was under the impression all the cool kids used MacBooks these days.

And electron, don’t forget about electron.

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