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> Do you have any ressources to share ?
Godbolt [0] is an invaluable ressource. But simply setting up tasks to yourself and completing them. If you have a week, I'd suggest to start "in the middle", and move up and down according to your tastes.
- Start writing a hello world program in C, compile it and run it. Try to compile it statically and understand the difference.
- Ask the compiler to produce an assembly file. Try to build the executable from that assembly.
- Try to write a hello world in assembly language by yourself, compile and run it.
- Write a program in assembly that prints fibonacci, or prime numbers.
- Now, forget about assembly and move upwards. Download python source code, compile it, and run a python hello world with that interpreter.
- Look at the Python source code, which is written in C, and try to follow what happens when you run your hello world.
- Try to change the "print" function of the python interpreter so that it prints your string backwards.
Depending on your experience, you may need more than a week (5 days) to complete all these steps. But that's OK! In a few months you can find a new spare week and continue your work.
[0] https://godbolt.org/
Agreed!
It reminds me of:
https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when
and how many of today’s CS-degree holders would barely understand any of it. As someone who has also “grown up with all the technology”, I’ve learned and experienced all that. But as a percentage of “software engineers”, there’s fewer and fewer that do every day.
12 yr FE dev here, and I’m a big fan of static site again, when possible. Who needs SPA when your round trip cost requires no JS eval or boot time? I wrote this library that is intended for somewhat tech savvy folks to easily generate static sites using AWS: https://github.com/dclowd9901/posse
I agree: building sites like that brings the fun back to web development in a big way.
You might find the paper Out of the Tar Pit interesting if you haven't already read it: https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/main/d...
The ideas and approaches you talk about evoked some of the concepts from that paper for me. It talks a lot about separating accidental complexity and infrastructure so you can focus only on what is essential to define your solutions.
Some developers believe everything is always a framework or any attempt to avoid frameworks creates a new framework. I cannot help these people. Any non-religion is a cult type nonsense of affirming the consequent fallacy.
Otherwise a valid example is this one file that creates a complete OS-like GUI in the browser awaiting content typically populated from WebSocket messaging: https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master...