PoorRustDev

“No one cares” except for all the people bringing up that they care.

I actually disagree and I hope others can help suggest some strategy for me to start finishing side projects. I haven’t finished anything that isn’t a university assignment so far. I always start something and end up putting it aside to work on exams or graded assignments.

Not surprised, the reMarkable Paper Pro has been the worst purchase I have made in the last three years. Support has been seriously unhelpful, and the tablet has only failed in greater ways once it was past the warranty period.

As an aside, the community is one of the worst I’ve encountered as well.

In contrast, the supernote manta has been a far better device, with much better support from the developers. The community is also more open to hearing criticism as well rather than attempting to silence those who voice regret in paying for a poor product.

how is working with hooded horse?

Even job fairs are useless now. I'm a current student and when I show up a lot of companies seem to just send an intern or 3rd party recruiter out with a bunch of generic company fliers. You can't ask any questions about the job because the recruiter won't know the answer, they don't work in the department or even worse they don't work for the company, and when you find a company you want to join they tell you to apply online anyway. Sometimes you get a special link for applying, which I think is how they differentiate between job fair applications and the others.

At least the few smaller companies that show up seem more immune to this, but they have the problem of wanting to pay an electrical engineer about $50,000-$60,000 for starting pay, which just isn't worth it. So everyone still puts up with the recruiters that know nothing because at least then you have a shot of earning a market rate salary.

"They haven’t seen the latest models that quietly chew through documents, write code, design websites, summarize legal contracts, and generate decent strategy decks faster than a middle manager can clear their throat.

They haven’t seen a model hold a complex conversation, remember context, suggest workflows, generate visuals, write scripts, and debug itself in one continuous flow."

You're absolutely right! I haven't seen these.

I have released commercially successful (for a single dev) games with Godot and C#. GDScript is just the default because most newer Godot users prefer the Python-like syntax, and being a custom language it has some extra features and integration in the editor.

"GUI situation in Rust is dreadful"

I have to agree with this, but for a lot of different things other than GUI as well. My friends all want me to use Rust, but I moved back to C++ after trying to do a lot of different projects in it after finding every crate I needed to be a WIP or abandoned state. There are the massive crates that are super popular of course, but it seems that once you get off the popular beaten path the available crates becomes far worse than any other language I have ever used.

Of course comparing Rust to something like Python or C++ is unfair to Rust, since Rust has had less time to develop those packages, but I think its more about the community at this point. I just don't see any enthusiasm for working on crates/frameworks. Most of the time when I find a crate I need, its sitting at version 0.3.0, last updated 1-3 years ago, with the documentation simply stating "Reimplementation of X in Rust, go read X's C++ documentation on how to use."

Yeah, I'm graduating soon and all the jobs I'm looking at "require" a 3.8 or above. And these aren't huge rockstar companies or anything, just local/regional CRUD shops or basic web dev companies. I guess I should have played the game of taking all the easiest classes with the easiest professors rather than attempting anything with more challenge. Sorry for the rant.