The Rust for Linux project

Posted Sep 29, 2021 11:22 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: The Rust for Linux project by lacos
Parent article: The Rust for Linux project

As someone who's currently being paid to "learn something new", it's painful!

I'm now working with Oracle rather than Pick, so switching from ENGLISH to SQL is horrible. SQL is just so much more convoluted, slow, horrendous ... (and I've just managed to speed up a query from 10 mins to 2, just by thinking hard about how it was written. The Pick version would probably have taken one minute as the first draft!).

Then there's learning VBA. Okay, I know assorted programming languages so this isn't so bad ...

But it gets wearing when pretty much everything you want to do results in a google query for "what's the syntax for doing XYZ?". And working remotely, I can't even easily ask my co-workers ...

Cheers,
Wol