r/ProgrammerHumor • u/dollymeshvibes • 9d ago

Meme forFutureReference

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u/luker_5874 8d ago

Why would you want to take code with you?

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u/arvigeus 8d ago

To rewrite it in Rust, of course...

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u/fbpw131 8d ago

made me chuckle in a public space.

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u/vadeka 8d ago

At this point I want to do something in rust just to see what’s it about but I have never worked at a company big or small that actually used it

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u/arvigeus 8d ago

Start your own project? That's what I did. I can tell you it's not the magic bullet that will suddenly make everything run faster, but it is a fascinating language to work with.

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u/vadeka 8d ago

I have so much work that I work 12-14h/day

What time I have left, I spend doing something else. Mostly sleeping to be honest.

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u/arvigeus 8d ago

You are not missing out. Make sure your life is in order first and foremost. Cheers!

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u/vadeka 8d ago

Even if I trim down my hours, I would rather spend it doing sports. Enough screen time in a day!

But such is startup live combined with a 9-5 job

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u/phroxenphyre 8d ago

I think mostly just as a reference for how you solved particular problems. I have a shit memory and am constantly pulling up older code to remind myself what I did last time so I don't have to go through the mental effort of reinventing the wheel.

Nowadays, I just have personal projects that I maintain and whenever I do something cool at work, I find a way to work that pattern into my personal project. Also gives me a chance to play around with it a bit more and see if there's any other cool stuff I can do with it.

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u/luker_5874 8d ago

I think generally it's best to leave it in the past.. every context is different and how you solved it previously probably isn't the best way

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u/EkoChamberKryptonite 8d ago

Except pattern-matching is common in software and a lot of what we do are repeatable patterns. So referencing old code can be helpful.

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u/Piyh 8d ago

In the before times, reference libraries of code that you had written helped you deliver faster in the next job.

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u/luker_5874 8d ago

I've never been in a situation at work where I thought "oh man, I really wish I had that shit code I wrote two years ago" but maybe that's just me.

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u/vadeka 8d ago

I kept copies at some point of source code and in 10+ years never ever looked back on it.

When I went devops however, that shit was golden

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u/BosonCollider 8d ago

My stereotype of career C programmers is that they do the same thing since they are often forced to reimplement basic stuff, though most of my career has been spent in languages where libraries are less painful to use