Exactly. I have always taken AoC as fun and time to learn. But there is so much going on during December and I do not enjoy doing more than one puzzle a day (it feels like hard work instead of fun). I usually spend time on weekends with kids and family and I am not willing to solve more puzzles during week days so I am falling behind all the time. My plan was always to finish last year puzzles to enjoy more interesting ones but it always felt wrong. So I hope I will have time to finish everything this year :-) But I feel pain from people with enough free time to go full on. I would love to be one of them but there is so much going on everywhere that I have to split my time. Sorry programming world and especially computers :-D
Linux for many years. Windows and Mac feels the same to me: they are not configurable enough. You just use almost default setup or you are out of luck.
Also technology provider is important. I doubt that government is able to self host face recognition. So the most common implementation would be microsoft (or any big corp good at lobbying in this part of the world) owning technology and data to preserve their vendor lock in. So there is high probability that those data will be used for other purposes (you can easily imagine standard corporate excuses if someone finds out).
It is not only about memory safety. C community is aging fast and young developers choose different languages. We started to rewrite all C and C++ code in my team because it is really hard to find people willing to maintain it. From my experience typical C or C++ programer is around 40 and not willing to switch jobs.
Inviting rank amateurs to established projects while expecting them to operate as free labor in the hopes of future relevance for employment has a distinctly different feel. Missives like the OP feel like preying on a desperate and young generation when paired with the commentary.
If all the entry-level jobs are C or C++, do you think companies would have a hard time filling them? Would the unemployed new graduates really shun gainful employment if Rust wasn't part of the equation?
Meanwhile, hiring managers left and right are reporting that within hours of a job being posted, they are flooded with hundreds of applications. And you can't find a single person because of the programming language of your stack? And to remedy this, you're going to rewrite your stack in an unproven language? Have you considered that if you can't find anyone that it might not be a programming language or tech stack problem?
My experience in working in C++ was that the salary wasn’t as good as what I could get elsewhere. That was a big part of why I left, I didn’t hate the job.
Wow, I've never considered this aspect of it but you're right. If you want widespread access to incoming developers that can contribute to your project, that really does mean Rust by default at this point if you want a low level language regardless of what you prefer.
Is the pay good at your job? Rust jobs are few and far between, so I think Rustafarians are willing to take lower pay to work in their dream language. Companies will of course abuse this.
