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Scripts should be written using the project main language
> Learning a new language shouldn't be difficult. Programmers are expected to familiarize themselves with new tech.
I wish any large company agreed with this. I've worked for a company that on boarded every single new engineer to a very niche language (F#) in a few days. Also, everybody I worked with there was amazing. Probably because of that kind of mindset.
Meanwhile google tiptoes around teams adopting kotlin because "oh no, what if other teams touching the code might not be able to read it". Google is supposed to be hiring the brightest but internally is worried the brightest can't review slightly-different-java.
It's shocking how everybody acts like senior engineers might need months to learn a new language. Sure, maybe for some esoteric edge cases, but 5 mins on https://learnxinyminutes.com/ should get you 80% of the way there, and an afternoon looking at big projects or guidelines/examples should you another 18% of the way.
> Sure, maybe for some esoteric edge cases, but 5 mins on https://learnxinyminutes.com/ should get you 80% of the way there, and an afternoon looking at big projects or guidelines/examples should you another 18% of the way.
Not for C++, and even for other languages, it's not the language that's hard, it's the idioms.
Python written by experts can be well-nigh incomprehensible (you can save typing out exactly one line if you use list-comprehensions everywhere!).
Someone who knows Javascript well still needs to know all the nooks and crannies of the popular frameworks.
Java with the most popular frameworks (Spring/Boot/etc) can be impossible for a non-Java programmer to reason about (where's all this fucking magic coming from? Where is it documented? What are the other magic words I can put into comments?)
C# is turning into a C++ wannabe as far as comprehension complexity goes.
Right now, the quickest onboarding I've seen by far are Go codebases.
The knowledge tree required to contribute to a codebase can exists on a Deep axis and a Wide axis. C++ goes Deep and Wide. Go and C are the only projects I've seen that goes neither deep nor wide.
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StackOverflow's making their own competing LLM for all this stuff.
IMO, one of the biggest problems with the way people use LLMs right now, is that they're being treated as a single oracle: to know Java, it must be trained on examples of Java.
It would be much better if their language comprehension abilities were kept separated from their knowledge (and there are development efforts in this direction), so in this example it would be trained to be able to be able to read a Java tutorial rather than by actually reading a Java tutorial, so when the overall system is asked to write something in Java, the language model within the system decides to do this by opening https://learnxinyminutes.com and combining the user query with the webpage.
I think this will help make the models more compact, which is a benefit all by itself, but it would also mean that knowledge can be updated much more easily.
Someone would have to actually do this in order to see if those benefits are worth the extra cost of having to load a potentially huge a tutorial into the context window, and likewise the extent to which a more compact training set makes the language comprehension worse.
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Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?
I'm still partial to LearnXinYMinutes[0]. It's how I learned enough MatLab/Octave in a couple hours to test out of an intro CS course.
Here's their article on Elixir[1]
The project was created and is maintained by Adam Bard, but is open sourced with over 1.7k contributors since 2013
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Anyone got good resources for experienced devs that don't know front end?
Very light compared to the other resources people have linked for you, but I love https://learnxinyminutes.com/
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Any advice on how to learn from programming tutorials, or are there any better ways to learn a new language?
https://learnxinyminutes.com is good when you know how to program but just need a quick look at the syntax and idioms of a new language.
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Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)
There are 6 books, the author recommends reading them in an order:
https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS?tab=readme-ov-fil...
If the second edition is not available, you can read the first edition, just be aware some small things may be slightly out of date.
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✅ getify/You-Dont-Know-JS : https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
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Best way to re-learn JavaScript as a former senior level js dev?
Kyle Simpson, the guy who wrote the YDKJS series https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS has classes on there and they’re honestly the shit just like his books.
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[AskJS] What would be a more recent equivalent to Crockford's "Good Parts" ?
In any case, maybe You Don't Know JS series could be it. It is a series of books. All of the books are pretty short. You can get it for free at the link or buy them on amazon.
You Don't Know JS as noted above.
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So I wrote a Spanish textbook
Great effort! Consider putting the book directly into your repository, similar to You Don't Know Javascript, for increased usability and to make it easier for the community to contribute (if that's something you want).
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