How is your weekend going, and which instrument are you playing this weekend?

Last Weekend:https://devrant.com/rants/10464175

Wrote a language using C in a few days that can execute this:

If you have the base correct, it gets boring.

I spend a lot of time in research to write smth like this

bear

Yes, yes, keep asking detailed "how are we going" pressure questions to me, surely that will improve my performance and not make me lose focus!

It looks like this website attended every single course it offers and graduated with honors in "Maximalism and the Fine Art of Digital Clutter"!

https://durgasoft.com/

wow now I have native linter tools telling me tabs are illegal when they're not

can these political people vamonos

Programming

Inspired by this rant:
https://devrant.com/rants/10314669/...

What are you coding right now?

OMG didn’t take adhd meds today, brain is going crazy. So many things I should be doing but can’t decide which bc I’m mentally pulled in a million directions

> Advice to new coders

Don't worry over picking language A or B.
Just pick A, use it for a month, then move on to B.
In a normal 3 year college degree you'll try multiple languages, some of which you'll never use again, and they'll each teach you something.

I had classes in Java, C, C++, C#, Prolog, Assembler, F#, JS.

Never used F# again and no one uses Prolog. But they were great for learning recursion and logic.

It's not like you take "a step down a bad path" if you pick a language you're never gonna use again.

You'll also learn new stuff on the job. We have one team that uses Go and one that uses Rust. None of the devs ever studied those languages. They were mostly former Java devs who leaned on the job.

A young guy I work with burst into tears today, I had no idea what happened so I tried to comfort him and ask what was up.

It appears his main client had gone nuts with him because they wanted him to make an internet toolbar (think Ask.com) and he politely informed them toolbars doesn't really exist anymore and it wouldn't work on things like modern browsers or mobile devices.

Being given a polite but honest opinion was obviously something the client wasn't used to and knowing the guy was a young and fairly inexperienced, they started throwing very personal insults and asking him exactly what he knows about things (a lot more than them).

So being the big, bold, handsome senior developer I am, I immediately phoned the client back and told them to either come speak to me face-to-face and apologise to him in person or we'd terminate there contract with immediate effect. They're coming down tomorrow...

So part my rant, part a rant on behalf of a young developer who did nothing wrong and was treated like shit, I think we've all been there.

We'll see how this goes! Who the hell wants a toolbar anyway?!