Post #1966212
2026-02-08 12:48 UTC
I'm 54 and while I consider myself reasonably up-to-date (aside from Swift modern concurrency, it's just too much for me) this train feels just too fast for me, I kinda wish it rolled a bit slower (but then again, probably a lot of people felt this before).
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@xjki@mastodon.social 2026-02-08 13:12
Started with read-book-get-hooked-on-programming, in late 80ies had chance (from small rural city go to bigger city 2x/week) to use Электроника БК-0010 in programming club, 90ies-soviet IBM mainframe clone with Rexx in the uni & PC revolution (Turbo Pascal, love you) from 8080->Pentiums, co-made library software for universities (dBase and FoxPro), co-founded software dev company (Oracle DB&Forms, web, Lotus, 15 years), sold it, got burnout, first (original) iPhone and mobile apps ever since.
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@mattiem@mastodon.social 2026-02-08 12:54
@xjki (you absolutely can learn the concurrency system, if you want to. But it isn’t necessary if you don’t!)