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  • Classic write-up!

    Although, now that I’m an interviewer, I kind of despise FizzBuzz, because nobody thinks clearly during a high pressure interview.

    Whenever possible, I love to talk with a candidate about some concrete past source code they claim to have written. I’ve better luck putting the candidate at ease and then talking through their contributions to the code.

    Of course, when I get enough candidates who shared source code, I don’t even invite the ones who didn’t share source code for an interview.









  • Thanks for the counterpoint.

    I always worry about the kids breaking in running after the next hot thing, and then not landing a job, because I’ve talked to folks who did so.

    I was needlessly worried, as they’re picking for a hobby project, anyway.

    And as someone else pointed out, Rust is on its way up. I just wouldn’t recommend Rust to a newbie as their first language to land their first job, today.



  • It’s certainly growing fast. And yeah, tops the desired charts.

    Python did that for years, and is now at number 4 (after the big three JavaScript, SQL and HTML).

    I, too, see great things in the future for Rust.

    I also agree, Rust is likely top 20, but it feels (from hjobs search anecdotes from peers) like there’s a massive drop off in real world use after the top 8 or 10.

    But again, my concern was entirely misplaced, as they’re not picking their first break-into-coding language, anyway.


  • MajorHavoc@programming.devtoProgramming@programming.devOdin or Rust
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    I’ve never heard of Odin, and I don’t know anyone being paid to write code in Rust.

    Source: I hire and mentor professional programmers.

    Edit: I assumed you were picking for breaking into the field, but I see from your other replies that this is for a hobby project. For my hobby projecs, I use whichever amuses me.