ohgh1ieD's comments

QT and C++, it's far too long on my list. It feels quite limited to me, to just be able to spit out web applications, many ideas I got would be better as a GUI application.

> I far more often felt like a curious attraction and "obviously" you're not really Austrian if you're not ethnically Austrian, even if you speak German and have lived in Vienna your whole life.

Once you master the Austrian 'Schmäh' everything is good :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_Schmäh

Oh alright thanks for the info !

> Daraus ergeben sich auch die zwei wesentlichen Anspruchsvoraussetzungen, die „soziale Förderungswürdigkeit“ und das Vorliegen eines „günstigen Studienerfolges“.

That's from their page, for me this looks like you have to pay it back if you, for example got bad grades, in fact I can ensure you, that the limit is 50%, if you screw up in more than 50% of your courses, you are done.

> (you don't have to pay this back, and there also is no tuition)

You have to pay it back, if you fail in your courses.

This might be related:

https://xkcd.com/927/

Edit: Besides that, I agree, except one thing, I'd say C# is just MS's reaction that there is something awesome which does not belong to them.

So you are telling OP that he got no chance 'here' and he should instead move to another area ?

It might be true but that's still not a good advice, you should rather ( if you know how ) advice him how to make it 'here' instead of 'there'.

> My employer is starting the transition from .NET to .NET Core and we're pretty confident that it's ready.

What's the reason for the switch ?

For us ( the company where I work ) it would be very difficult to rewrite our applications to core, so we decided to only introduce core to new in-house projects.

> but I'm not very fond of the JS community nor the language itself. I've been wanting to get into C# for a while, but I'm not sure if the tooling and community is quite developed yet.

You got your answer, learn core

I'm not sure if asp.net core is production ready, I wouldn't use it right now for my projects and I also doubt ( someone correct me if this is wrong ) that established companies are looking for asp.net core devs, it might be quite hard to find freelancing jobs.

So it's probably a better idea to use node for freelancing.

Now combined, you actually don't like node, asp.net core is not production ready and companies are not using it (yet), what else could you do ? asp.net mvc, lots of jobs, solid mature framework and C#.

Edit: I also think that it won't be hard to switch from asp.net mvc to asp.net core.

See the AI hype? this is going to happen to gene editing and biology.

I think that lots of dev's are already interested in the human genom, biochemistry and life science but it's somehow too far away, it's not predicable enough for us, that's because we (humans) haven't understood it yet.

But there will be a time were all those topics will be more predicable for us developers, we will gain more interest in biological programming ?

There will be coursera/pluralsight courses about 'Extract your own DNA and make it blink' courses.

Biology is going to be programmable like a microcontroller. We will order Do it yourself kits like Arduinos and Pi's from Amazon.

Edit:

And that's something I'd really love to see, there is so much potential once real hackers try to solve problems in biology, if we take a closer look at the open source community and how many amazing things they (we) have created, all that awesomeness could also become true for biology.

A few links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_editing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-it-yourself_biology

I'm very pleased so far, but as I said, it's too early for me to tell something.

> However, it didn't scale that well for us.

What kind of scaling problems did you encounter ?

I'm measuring its footprint, it's too early for me to tell, I can refer back to you, after I've done some tests.

I'm actually on the same road right now, currently I'm testing Piwik.

https://piwik.org

It does work, I usually never ever visit them again.

They successfully lost a potential customer.

Complexity

Too short: I still have to learn something at that company that I could use for my own projects.

Too long: There is nothing else to learn at that company.

Company: asp.net mvc

Home: Play Framework or Spring Boot

How do you use C++ for web development and why ?

Yes always, I hate it, that's the worst part of every application, testing in general but it's also the foundation for a good night sleep.

> I've used RoR before but for something like this performance could be an issue.

We should speak about numbers, Rails would handle any normal app without problems. I'm not a huge Rails fan but I know that its image is broken and everyone claims that's it's slow just because someone who really needed performance ( Twitter, Github etc.. ) said so.

We really should differ between 'normal apps' and huge apps.

So basically, Rails is totally fine for your project.

> Angular is a monster and that at least would give the entire MVC but seems to be on the decline and is not a friendly framework.

We are talking about angular1 ? If so, I don't think it's declining, I actually believe that lots of established companies would not start a project with angular2, simply because it just got released.

Angular1 is fine, I know quite a few people who started their projects 1-2 months ago using angular1, the only difference is now, that they try to keep it modular, for example they stay close to the recommended way of doing things, which makes upgrading to angular2 easier, they refer to the John Papa guide[0].

Because you asked which stack we would use:

I'd use the Play! Framework or Spring Boot, since there is more CRUD I'd probably use Spring boot, VueJs because I would not create a SPA but would extend functionality with some lightweight frontend framework, angular1 is too big, Vue seems right.

Postgresql, because Postgresql.

[0] https://github.com/johnpapa/angular-styleguide