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I have decided to build expertise in Python. I love the language and want to build a deep understanding of it. I have multiple reasons for wanting to go this route with the primary one being that I don't like context switching tools for work and personal projects. I also feel that context switching in between multiple languages restricts my understanding to them to a very surface level.

Ideally it won't be one language, it would be Python + C (or Mojo). But you get the gist! I also understand the consequence of this approach, in that I am restricting myself to a very limited number of jobs. What are your thoughts about this approach?

I am going through an existential crisis as a developer. I am looking to revamp my entire skillset to align more with where I believe the future of software engineering is heading.

And during this phase, I encountered Rust and loved it, but I couldn't wrap my head around its existence. Rust has a good balance of low-level and high-level abstractions, but I didn't know where to use them. For web and mobile, there is the JS ecosystem. For machine learning, we have the Py ecosystem. I see members of the Rust community thinking of Rust as a replacement for these languages, instead the right approach is to focus on enhancing these languages and becoming the backbone for this two ecosystems. Rust is the superglue we needed!

Do we have any programming language design jobs in the industry or it is merely a hobby that one pursues?

I am not looking to be controversial. It is something I have been genuinely thinking for sometime.

I don't understand the need for Python as a general-purpose programming language. How are organizations using Python at scale? I understand that it is a good scripting language but other than does it offer anything substantial compared to other general-purpose languages like - Node, Go, C# or even Java? These languages can also be used at scale without worrying about the low-level details, however, I cannot say the same for Python.

Apart from AI / ML, where Python is heavily used by interfacing with C/C++/CUDA libraries is there any place where Python stands out on its own without merely acts as a frontend to other languages?

Am I missing something here?

Given a choice to learn systems programming or low-level programming in 2023, how would you start?

Looking to find resources to understand the cybersecurity landscape, where and how the field is moving forward.

I am having difficulty managing my identity across online platforms. I feel like I am more honest on some platforms and not so much on others. The more anonymous I am the more secure (free) I feel online.

Is there a way to mitigate this problem or somehow manage it?

I was wondering why isn't there a platform with a one-click job recommendation and application. The closest thing is Easy Apply on LinkedIn, but I still have to find and apply for each job.

Isn't finding a new job a recommendation problem, and don't we have enough real-world systems doing the same thing? Ideally, I would like to inform the system of my preference, and let the system do the heavy lifting of finding and applying for the job.

I am a full-time engineer working for an MNC where the tech stack is Java / Python. Outside of work, I spend most of my time in competitive coding and teaching programming to friends/family.

I am looking to transition to Rust for all my side projects (and possibly everywhere in the near future). I don't have any specific reason for this transition other than to move away from Java / Python.

I want to continue my competitive coding practice and my side projects that are mostly low-level systems. I am looking to build a niche for myself and see Rust as an escape (something I can explore and grow with). I might be overplaying my hand here, any suggestions would be helpful.

Is there anything to keep in mind before I take this plunge?

I am confused with the whole notion of being an employee to one organization. The way I am looking at it, my employer is my customer. So why do I need to depend on one customer and why can't I have many to increase my source of income.

If I want to go about doing this? How should i do it, is taking remote work from multiple companies feasible option?

Most of the day to day software engineering is our ability to work with the language tooling, we can also call it the ecosystem of the language. From Java's perspective most of our interaction with the language is not directly with the language but with frameworks like Spring etc. These things are meant to make the language more easily digestible. The problem comes in when the platform becomes so huge that there is no way to logical develop a thorough understanding of the actual technology at hand. I started studying Java again to brush up my knowledge of it but found that the language has grown so much it was difficult to derive a logical conclusion to the platform.

This was further evident when I started looking for Java developer roles in my country and found that just understanding the language and its principles were not enough. There seemed to be a general consensus that Java developers must know other related technologies like Spring, JPA, Hibernate, etc. All these related technologies bring their own software paradigm into the picture and hide the actual technology (Java) under the hood.

* Why for some weird reason a Java developer must know or supplement his understanding of the language with framework like Spring, JPA, Hibernate, etc? This is true for other platforms like Node.JS where you have MERN stack etc.

* Are there other languages (or platforms) like Go or Rust where the language is well developed that these external dependencies are minimal.