Last year I used mainly crystal. This year I’m thinking pharo smalltalk, if I can pick it up in time
I also want to do visualizations, not sure how possible that is with smalltalk.
Last year I used mainly crystal. This year I’m thinking pharo smalltalk, if I can pick it up in time
I also want to do visualizations, not sure how possible that is with smalltalk.
I always use Rust, because I cannot use it at work and I am still bad with it.
New Years resolution the past 5 years: I will get better with Rust.
…and I do get better but somehow it always feels like it’s not enough. Like, I’m still an imposter.
I can program an entire embedded USB keyboard/mouse firmware from scratch that can do all sorts of things no keyboard has ever done before yet I still feel like a newbie somehow. Like there’s all these people that talk about traits and mutli-threaring with async and GPU and AI stuff and I’m like, “I wrote an embedded_hal crate that lets you use both 8 and 16-channel multiplexers simultaneously!” or, “I wrote an interface that let’s you use the extra space in your RP2040 flash memory as a filesystem!”
Yet everything I ever write in Rust always just uses the most basic and simple features because I still have trouble with complex lifetimes (passing them around quickly gets too confusing for me) and traits that work with non-basic types (because in the world of embedded
'staticis king).Good news: if you’re writing #Rust and only using basic features of the language, you’re doing it right.
People who use the advanced stuff either have unique, interesting challenges, or they’re over-engineering. Since the former are overrepresented in the blogosphere, you’re probably comparing yourself to them. But just because their problems are interesting doesn’t mean yours are not! Nor does it mean you have to use the same solutions.
If you can solve interesting problems (it sounds like you can!) and keep the code simple, more power to you!
Maybe you should work more on you self-esteem instead of rust?
Doesn’t seem healthy to be good at something and not recognizing it as an accomplishment.