The State of Develper EcoSystems 2023

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Hey I am sponsored by Turso, an edge database. I think they are pretty neet. Give them a try for free and if you want you can get a decent amount off (the free tier is the best (better than planetscale or any other))

[JoeBrinkman]

100% agree with your take on CoPilot. It is a smart intern. It is enough to get you started, but you really need to check its work carefully.

[andythedishwasher]

Typically my move with shell is to use it in subprocesses when I need its features in my code in other languages.

[swannie]

25:48 I was an architect (buildings not software) for ~7 years before switching to data engineering. Best decision of my life ngl.

[KangoV]

50% of all developers have less than 5 years experience! That's just nuts! Scala is big in the Data Engineering space, e.g. Databricks.

[swannie]

I only associate Scala with data engineering. Spark, Kafka, and Flink. Those are the tools I think driving the language’s high earning.

[AlecSorensen]

What I appreciated about Copilot is that it learned my style. So for example, if I was creating a bunch of schemas for MonogoDB, it would pick up on all the createdDate, updatedDate, userId boiler plate properties and then automatically generate those in addition to the typical schema boiler plate. While you could do this with snippets, the difference is that with Copilot you can customize your "snippets" on the fly instead of manually editing them by hand or creating a whole new snippet for each variant.

[ceigey-au]

Azure is super popular in Australia, and especially the more regional you go, because most big businesses and government have experience with Microsoft and Azure feels like just an extension of that. Plus, they do a lot of outreach to help with hybrid and gradual cloud migrations. I imagine that's the same in quite a few countries around the world. AWS is more popular for businesses that sprung out of the techy side and didn't have the continuity with Microsoft.

[Muaahaa]

I like writing Rust more than Go. With Go I'm often annoyed about writing another for loop, but I never find myself stuck in a corner I created. With Rust, I'm delighted by the language until I get stumped by some borrow checker error (skill issue). Ultimately I'll be spending more time with Go professionally because I don't foresee a desire or need at my company to learn rust (there are only a handful of us there that have used Rust, and that's all been for hobby projects).

[Exilum]

23:40 Prime you skipped the parenthesis, could have changed your opinion on the category there, I think. There are some things you wouldn't use current models for that you could use this "ideal world"" AI for.

[Stay_away_from_my_swamp_water]

For me who's currently learning my 16th (holy shit that's a lot and I might've forgotten sth) language in 2 years (collage stuff. they expect that we just work in whatever they tell us to), online courses are great for learning them quickly, and ai is wonderful for remembering the syntax after putting a language off for a few weeks.

[jared]

This is the first time I have heard the squeal variant of SQL. I like it.

[nexovec]

That's a leaderboard of how much stuff people google in a given language, not of how many people use the language. It explains a lot about the results too. Golang really saved this one for me, the results I would consider really bad otherwise.

[quentinemacsftw]

This was a triumph
I'm making a note here: huge success

[cherry-ep]

Switched to dot core at the start of this year and honestly loving it. Dotnet core is a completely different environment since the dotnet framework days. Its also faster or on par with Go’s web servers ;)

[Waitwhat]

"Stop staying in your dark room" *looks around, there is no light besides the monitor* "Stop staying up to 4, sleeping for 3, making the standup, and going back to bed" *literally my day for the last 4 days*

All you had to do was call out my name and I would have full on felt like I was on the a Truemen show

[HDConcussionz]

I enjoy using copilot with new languages I am not familiar with.
I still don't fully trust what it gives, but the quick examples working with my data help me get to the right place.

[addcoding]

performace tests are great sanity tests for game dev.
You have very hard maximum millisecond boundaries so you can just write a test, that runs your update function and assets that it is always bellow the threshold.

[andythedishwasher]

What gets me the worst is when people stack other linters on top of Typescript. Looking at you, Sharepoint Framework.

[TheFoyer]

I've been using chat gippity lately to write postgres functions for me. I can describe a very basic schema, and tell it what I want it to do. And it's really damn good at giving me the results I need.

[domasvaitmonas]

24:46 -- I have always said that one of the top skills aspiring developers should have is the ability to sit at the computer for very long hours.