ooooak's comments

I feel your pain, I managed a node app in production for 2+ years. That made me realize PHP is not that bad. Now I see this trend where people just throw in Typescript. Why not just use a statically typed language?

if you write lots of rest API you should use Go and thank me later.

It's storytime

S1. I met a guy who was really passionate about blockchain and python. At some point, he joined a startup. They were using react-native. Within 2 months he left the job. They treated him really poorly, and no one was there to help him. Now he is preparing for gov jobs.

s2. Another young gun, who works in TCS it's been 6 months since he is last wrote a single line of code. At some point, they will throw a project at him and assume he is a top java hacker. That will solve all kinds of crazy problems.

Location: India (state punjab)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: MySQL, PHP/Laravel, Javascript/Node/express/react, Go/gin/gorm, python, rust, and Clojure (Yes, I like learning languages next will be erlang/elixir with phoenix)

Résumé/CV: https://ooooak.github.io/cv

Email: [email protected]

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I am a Full-stack developer with 8 years of experience. I have worked remotely all my life. I built the fixdrepair.com from scratch using boring php/laravel and that served us really well. looking for interesting work not just crud app.

Clojure

> How has learning a new language helped you in your career?

I have a success story, I would not say it helped me in my career. but it made me more confident as a developer.

I was a full-stack PHP developer. In my free time, I always learn new languages (python, ruby, go, rust, OCaml, Clojure, and some Haskell). even now I kinda enjoy learning new stacks. its just fun for me.

For one of our projects (it's back 3 or 4 years ago), we used node. To that point, I never really looked deep into it as I was always busy with go and rust. turns out I was really productive from day one. while others had to do some soul searching.

In short, it made me a better developer and more confident.

I had the same mindset but it turns out its not the right one for me. People don't really care about how many languages you know. They want their business problems to be fixed. if you are interested in technology x first try it your self. see if it something you actually wanna use it. then market your self around it.

jumping to a new stack could also mean you will be unproductive for years and you will face problems that you never have seen before. Surely all new technologies sound fun but at the end of the day, there are no silver bullets. on top, it takes years to be an expert at any stack.

I started with PHP and then moved to the node. that made me realize how good PHP is. I have been looking for an alternative on the backend. Go, Clojure and elixir sound about right. turns out they all have their issues too. It's better to stick to your guns and only move when the current stack is not fixing the problems you have created for your self.

I have two things in mind,

1. Headless eCommerce in go

2. A Clojure like language for PHP in Clojure (will be very simple)

After looking at "Making the Tokio scheduler 10x faster" I was thinking how hard it's gonna be to create a Clojure for rust. That will leverage rust's ecosystem. That means you get max performance of rust and get to use it with a nicer language.

not true, I have lots of experience in PHP and if I write code in go sure it will have more bugs than my PHP implementation. how familiar are you with your current stack matters a lot. Also, That does not mean you should use a runtime where 100 things can go wrong (talking about node).

if the goal is to maintain an application and catch issues at compile time. go with a better type system Haskell/Ocaml/Rust.

Another option would be to use generative testing where you have tight control over what gets in, for example, Clojure/Spec.

have a business model that never changes. use the ecosystem that you are most familiar with and have fewer surprises.

Location: Punjab, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP/Laravel, Node/Express/sequelize, React/Nextjs

Résumé/CV:https://ooooak.github.io/cv

Email:[email protected]

I am a full stack developer (Some Devops) focused on REST API, Database Design and Backend. I am also productive in Go, Rust, and Clojure. I would love to switch into Elixir/Phoenix or erlang.

> I may have just pissed off a lot of people with my experiment :(

That's why we don't test on production

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Hii, I am subbed to your youtube :)

> http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

try this book out. if you don't hate JVM then Clojure could be a good idea.

Clojure is a programming language. it's not a DSL by any mean. I don't have much experience with it but it does not look like a DSL to me. maybe you know something that I don't.

nextjs && node for api. some laravel on backend

i guess it still live

i have used both APIs. i would say both get the shit done. but i liked stripe more. they have better admin interface. plus some what good documentation than Braintree.

> PHP Sucks

tell me something new

are you me ?