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I wish I could be more helpful in the front end space, but in terms of what is being used a lot: most of my clients use node/react with typescript for their front end apps. I do write a good bit of javascript/typescript, but not enough to be someone who would offer much help as a mentor in those languages. While I work on front ends occasionally, I’m primarily a backend engineer and most of my projects are in python (including most of my web apps, rest APIs, socket servers, and stuff that isn’t exposed directly, like data pipelines, and model training jobs). Years ago, I wrote these things primarily in Java. I’ve also been very interested in working in go, which is an awesome language. If you’re interested in writing things in python or need any infrastructure/deployment insight, I’m happy to be a sounding board! Just unable to give a solid stamp of approval on my typescript/JavaScript advice, unfortunately 🫣
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nobody 2y ago

That's great! I have been playing with Python again (was looking at Django framework as well). It does seem like backend stuff would be well suited to it. Honestly, coming from C++, it's kinda fun to work in too.

Go fascinates me as an embedded engineer as well - the idea of no dependencies, even on libc has a great appeal in that setting. I'm glad getting to know Python better isn't a waste. I'm at the stage of being so dumb I don't even know what to learn first, but I think I've gotten some good pointers here tonight. Thanks for the insight into what tools backend developers use as well. It's all very fascinating. I need a break from low level code and have a lot of ideas that would be fun. Learning something new is always awesome anyway.

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Katie 2y ago

It really is! I love it when I come across a new problem :) learning something new is the best.

In terms of python and Django, there are kind of two camps - I’m more of a flask person than a Django one, just because I don’t really love monorepos, am more microservice minded, and like to have more control over the components I need and how I distribute them. Django people love it though, so it is partially preference and project specific (I’m anti saying any tool is good/bad - it’s all about trade offs, priorities, and project requirements). But if you do ever want some feedback in those areas, I’m happy to be a resource.

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nobody 2y ago

That is awesome. I appreciate all you do.