Hey HN!Just from writing applications in both python, typescript and rust I have developed a tacit understanding of the different type systems.Typescript is very expressive and the ts-ignore is a nice escape hatch when you want to make something work first and then get the types to line up later. Rust doesn't have that and it's a kinda hard to make stuff quickly. Python just has horrible types...
Hellooo HN, long time reader, first time poster.I'm a final year cs undergrad student and this winter break I wanted to make my first real sort of end-to-end software. So I made wyd.chat.It's a imessage analyzer kind thing - just looks at your texts to see who you text the most, when you text them, what you talk about, how many group chats you're in with them, etc etc.I made it for fun but...
For me, a good programmer realizes that "everything is code". Like, sometimes it's easy to think X problem is too hard for me or I don't have enough experience or this bug is unfixable but end of the day, it's all just code. You can change it however you want and if someone else did implemented something before, it's highly likely that you'll be able to do the same. Having a level of distance from the code one writes really helps.
I will say, having operated these facebook based businesses, it is literally the worst and I can't wait for something else to take its place.
I want a thing in my terminal that I can use to track my habits