PeppyNarwhal
PeppyNarwhal

The only rant you’ll ever need as a Software Engineer!

2 year old post on Reddit. Its very long, but is pure gold! Covers each and every damn thing about Software Engineering! Must read for everyone!

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MagicalQuokka
MagicalQuokka

"The older I get, the more I appreciate dynamic languages" - Finally, someone said it.

In my earlier years, I used to love C++, Go, Rust and even TypeScript over JavaScript in the worst case. Python and JS were heresy for me.

Now I love Python and JavaScript and I feel they're much better for most use-cases and atleast the first 75%ile of scaling requirements.

Ain't nobody got time for dealing with static types once you're older. With more experience, you begin understanding the shapes/types of all commonly used constructs in dynamic languages anyway.

PeppyNarwhal
PeppyNarwhal
Swiggy21mo

That’s so true!

SillyKoala
SillyKoala
Swiggy21mo

So what is yoe threshold when you start preferring runtime errors over compilation errors?

GoofyDonut
GoofyDonut

I've never worked at FAANG so I don't know what I'm missing. But I've hired (and not hired) engineers from FAANGs and they don't know what they're doing either.

Itna bhi sach nahi bolna tha lol

PeppyNarwhal
PeppyNarwhal
Swiggy21mo

FAANG is overrated. There are way better companies out there.

SnoozyHamster
SnoozyHamster

Thank you for sharing this post!

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Tell me you are a mediocre programmer/ work with mediocre programmers /an idiot without telling me you are.

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Blud thinks he's onto something 💀 Let me guess, you're a PM?