cflewis

joined 7 months ago
[–] cflewis@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

When I oopsie in server-side software, I roll it back, hopefully users never see it. When you oopsie client-side software it’s far more likely that users see it and resolution takes order days, not order minutes.

As I am a coward, I only work server-side πŸ™ƒ

[–] cflewis@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is probably going to get downvoted into oblivion but: try writing some Haskell for a while. Learn You A Haskell is a good place to do it, just bail out when you get to monads.

When I was taught programming at university, we did one assignment in Java, then the next one was the exact same assignment but in Haskell. The idea was not to bias us towards imperative vs functional programming. I don't think it worked -- I would guess almost everyone preferred Java -- but over my career I've learned how much Haskell has offered me for writing imperative code for my day job. I think you will get what you are looking for by trying some Haskell for a while.

[–] cflewis@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bazzite will install it for you as part of the setup if you ask for it.

[–] cflewis@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You sound like the target audience for Bluefin. I'm running it and it's excellent.

[–] cflewis@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

Yes, I turned off network access and it works identically. This is a good path. Lawn chair was ok.