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Conan, Meson, Ninja, Bazel, meta-build tool / dependency manager #231 etc. etc. And then you have to deal with all the modern C++ and STL footguns.

It never ends .·°՞(っ-ᯅ-ς)՞°·.

Yeah, Xcode's Metal debugger is fantastic, and Metal itself is imo a really nice API :]. For whatever reason it clicked much better for me compared to OpenGL.

Have you tried RenderDoc for the OpenGL side? Afaik that's the equivalent of Xcode's debugger for Vulkan/OpenGL.

I personally appreciate Java (and the JVM) much more after having tried other languages/ecosystems that people kept saying were so much better than Java. Instead, I just felt like it was a "the grass is greener" every time. The only other language that I felt was an actual massive improvement is Rust (which so far has been a joy to work with).

It's a shame imo that it's not seen as a "cool" option for startups, because at this point, the productivity gap compared to other languages is small, if nonexistent.

You can do AOT compilation with GraalVM to reduce both startup times and memory usage, but then you don't have the JIT.

The actual jobs and networking aspect is fine imo, but I loathe the feed/content, even the SWE-related stuff is a lot of times bad or clickbaity.

I hide the feed + sidebar with a uBlock Origin filter and it's a much nicer experience: linkedin.com##main[aria-label="Main Feed"],aside[aria-label="Add to your feed"]

Afaik if you cool the potatoes down to get resistant starch, the GI should be similar to a banana

I like the idea of LSPs and have tried switching to Vim/Neovim/Emacs a few times, but Jetbrains' refactoring/intellisense is just so much better imo

I guess it depends on the area, but I thought Rust jobs were still hard to come by even today?

For jobs, ecosystem and general productivity my go-to is always Java/C#/Go, if you learn one of those I think you'll be set, so Go in your case. The learning curve for Rust is similar to C++, much steeper.

I just checked what the final boss looks like, combined with the phobias... glad I didn't finish the game as a kid.

Thanks for the article, great read!

VCs preparing term sheets as we speak

We've now entered the age of exponential tech debt, it'll be a sight to behold