I used to think that there's a a room for better C -> Some unrelated complains about Rust and Go -> C has footguns, but they don't matter that much because I choose to not write my code myself anymore -> Therefore there's no room for better C.

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I don't have much savings on me, but I'd rather go frugal and downshift than be producing slop for a living.

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Nowadays when everyone and their dog are either vibe-coding with Rust or constantly shouting about it's superiority, I've lost any interest in the language. I'm learning Zig.

- Make systems as observable as possible. Stuff will break, the easier it is to identify the cause, the better. Logging things at different program flow points helps immensely.

- Question every decision in the codebase you are working on, but thoroughly weigh any refactoring attempts

- Don’t fall in love with own code

- Prefer readability over performance (in most cases)

- Don’t follow trends blindly. More than likely your boring stack is the best way to go

- Allow room to recover from a malformed system state

- Don’t abstract prematurely. If you struggle with designing your abstractions, you are probably good with concrete case(s) for now

But let’s say it succeeds eventually. It means that there won’t be any new languages invented, and no updates to existing ones either. So AI will stick to a few current languages in their current states.

And the learning ability will be limited because human content is not being produced anymore. If that’s the case, AI should logically narrow it’s toolset to a single language which has capability of solving the widest spectrum of problems without the need for any further creativity.

What do you think this language is? Python? JavaScript? Rust? Something else?

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In my case, I absolutely hated investment banking and this career and my Finance degree were wrong choices that I just didn’t want to admit to myself.

I started thinking what I used to enjoy doing before university and I realized that I always loved computers and even programmed a good amount of Visual Basic and Pascal back in days.

As for the transitioning process, I took the radical approach. I first combined learning to code (again) with my job but it was very difficult. So I saved 6 month living expenses, quit my job and locked myself in my apartment for studying. Ran out of funds before getting enough knowledge to land an actual job. Took side hustles from my previous career for about 2 years to continue learning. Eventually managed to land a job paying 25% of my past salary. But once I got into the industry, I grew rather quickly because of how motivated I was compared to my previous career.

The moral of the story is, if you feel like there’s something that is much better suited to your personality, it’s okay to start from scratch. It will be painful for sure, but the pain is temporary compared to a lifelong feeling of being miserable on a wrong path.

Lately, I've noticed that the joy I get from my work has been fading, mostly because it's been extremely hard for me to find a company that shares my values.

I’ve been thinking about starting my own venture for a long time, but the main thing holding me back is my fear of stagnating as an engineer. I still feel like I have so much to learn in the field, but on the other hand, I’m not sure if that feeling will ever go away.

I would greatly appreciate any advice from tech founders ex-engineers on how to resolve this kind of dilemma.

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https://github.com/olzhasar/mess

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