It’s no reddit in terms of quantity but honesty I’ve had higher quality topics and discussions here than there. Lemmy/kbin might not have taken off in the mainstream to offer a variety of subjects but when it comes to tech and software I think it’s covered well enough and people are generally nicer about it. The main problem is lack of (remotely) good seach function, I dont think the threads are getting indexed by google and the on-site search is atrocious.

I don’t know of any discord programming communities, I wish forums were still a thing but the only live one I know of is the jellyfin one after they moved from reddit. Other than that it’s here or the various subreddits

I was aware of some people trying to get it working on wine but last I checked it wasn’t really going anywhere, there were some big blockers there, and I didn’t know the developers were interested in it at all.

Fork and VS are probably the top 2 pieces of software I’m missing to fully migrate to linux so I’d be very happy if they developed an official port that works as well as it does on win.

although they are experimenting with it)

Do you have a source for this maybe? This is very exciting news but I don’t wanna get my hopes up if it’s not true

How will manually retyping git pull or checkout 30+ times a day, or using the terminal log instead of a nice GUI with VSCode integration, teach me to solve other complicated issues? I just don’t really see the benefit of struggling for most of the time for something that might or might not happen later

When you need more advanced stuff then GUIs tend to become more of a sticking point I find

What’s stopping you just opening the terminal in those rare cases? For 99% of my daily needs I’m good with a good GUI

Git Fork is absolutely amazing. It has a good (unlimited) free trial but it is well worth the one time purchase too.

I wonder what kind of support for development do you get? Honestly I’ve only had obstacles when I switched, for example the docker installation was much more complicated on linux than on windows+wsl. Even installing python was problematic because apparently ‘upgrading it yourself can brick the system’, at least if an older version comes with the OS?

And lastly it’s the simple thing that pretty much all tools work on windows natively but on linux you have to find workarounds, which is definitely a problem when it comes to productivity.

So what are the benefits, what does linux have that windows doesn’t in this context?

You can kinda see this in things like modding communities or anything piracy related too. Users just want easy solutions even if it’s at the expense of creators, and creators are doing it more and more for money rather than any personal drive or satisfaction. I can’t believe we’ve reached a point where even mods are being locked behind paywalls, need to be commissioned or sometimes have entire teams funded by patreon to work on them, it’s just another business nowadays.

The most common usecase is generating data models based on the database, mostly using t4 files so far. We have a non-standard way of defining some parts of it so the default MS tools don’t quite cut it (like ef dbcontext scaffold). I’ve been looking into roslyn but it seems like it might be more trouble than its worth, but default t4 doesn’t even have a proper editor and syntax highlighting so its a low bar atm.

I was really hoping there was something like hamachi/xfire/garena from the old days but modernized and more stable 😅 I just assumed it’d be a solved problem by now.

I’m not giving up on tailscale yet, I’ll try the funnel feature but yeah… seems a bit troublesome for sure

Thanks for linking that, seems like a great resource! Seems like there’s a few that support UDP although I’m not sure if they will work with a CGNAT setup, also their setup seems a bit more complicated and technical than expected but I need to look more into it tomorrow. If everyone else needs to have this installed then that might be an issue

If you find or run into that article later please share it, I’d definitely like to read it!

Ah sorry, forgot to mention it here because I originally posted it on csharp and then crossposted. I’m specifically thinking about c#, EF and .net core for web dev.

I’m not caching or reusing method results however, and even the inputs are not necessarily cached for multiple uses. I’m just preparing all potentially required input data before the method is actually called so I don’t have to do any loads within the method itself, so the method is just pure code logic and no db interaction.

For example, imagine you have a method that scores the performance of an athlete. The common “pattern” in this legacy code base is to just go through the logic and make a database load whenever you need something, so maybe at the beginning you load the athlete, then you load his tournament records, then few dozen lines later you load his medical records, then his amateur league matches, etc.

What I do is I just load all of this into a cache before the actual method call, and then send it into the method as a data source. The method will only use the cache and do all the calculations in-memory, and when it’s done the result would be in the cache as well. Then outside of the method I can just trigger a save or abandon it to persist the result. If I want to unit test it, I can easily just manually fill a cache with my data and use it as the data source (usually you’d have to mock custom response from the repository or something like that, inject an in-memory repository with the same data anyway or just resign to using an integrated test).

It’s like I’m “containerizing” the method in a way? It’s a pretty simple concept but I’m having trouble googling for it since I don’t know how to call it.

I only have half as much experience as you, and none with Go specifically, so I can’t give you any good answers but I can say I empathize - the company I work at is also stuck with a legacy monolith that’s still on .net framework and everything is so coupled that it’s impossible to even unit test, less alone deploy the projects separately. Some people aren’t bothered even with the basic principles of code writing and the senior people are just overworked and can’t keep tabs on it even if they wanted to.

The worst part is that the company is mostly either juniors just doing what they are told or older seniors that are stuck in their ways and are afraid of anything new - although as I got older I started to see why that might be the correct approach, not everyone wants to learn and adapt to new tech and it’s a big ask of the upper management to risk it on that. Basically we’re just repeating the same mistakes and wasting time fixing known errors that keep happening and any actual improvement or proper removal of tech debt never happens.

So yeah… I’m starting to believe that “clean good code” only happens either in hobby projects or new startups. Any larger, “stable” codebase of a larger company is going to be an inefficient mess however 🤷‍♂️

I agree completely. The discussion was what we replace English with however.

I’m not in favor of replacing English, I’m just saying if we want an alterantive I don’t want it to be a nation-specific language again, so to speak.

It’s a neutral, easily accessible language. Having it in programming could incentivize more people to learn it as well.

I’m not disagreeing outright but… Why do we need more non English programming languages? Is there a specific practical reason?

The only language translation I’d maybe consider to accept in programming is Esperanto. Anything else just sounds like a terrible idea.

I use the CLI for simple commands, especially if helping someone on another PC and I don’t have access to my preferred tool, but I honestly don’t get people who use it religiously and never even try tools with GUIs. The convenience of being able to easily see the commit history, scroll through it, have a right click context menu or ability to just click it and see file changes (and then right click those files for additional options), is just something I can’t abandon. Nowadays even the aliasing can be replicated in those tools if they support creation of custom commands so even that is a moot point - with some setup you can be as fast as with a CLI.

Hmm, having googled very superficially about django and flask, it seems to me like the state (at least today) is the opposite - flask is lightweight and django is more heavy duty, having a built in ORM layer, authentication service, admin interface, db migration framework, etc.

To be fair the article also says Django is known for its performance but when I googled that the other day, it looked like it was often near the bottom of the chart rather than top… I guess it really comes down to personal preference in the end 🤷‍♂️