I've been a long-time Ruby developer and more recently have been doing a metric ton of Python work. My goal with this post is to compare the relative pros and cons of each language as I've seen them. This was a difficult post to write, because of the deeply subjective...
Where are all the Rustaceans?
Rust was all the hype in coding circles for a while, but why didn’t the adoption materialize?
Golden Age for Coders
Emacs or Vim? Spaces or tabs? Linux, macOS or Windows? Python or Ruby? These are just a brief list of the burning questions that have kept the flames of tech tribal war burning since the first computers hit the market. In our hearts, we all know that these are...
ZMQ Setup for Qt Dev on Windows
Currently, I am working on a project that is a Qt application targeting modern Linux desktop distributions and Windows. The application needs to communicate with some onboard hardware via ZMQ. Normally in a Windows only .Net environment, I'd use NetMQ and C# and be...
Pallet Town: Async / Await
If you've ever had the pleasure of enjoying a drink with a .Net developer and stumbled into any form of a C# VS insert language here, then you've probably heard about they dynamic duo of the async and await keywords. Sadly, our .Net loving friends are right that they...
Why Alice Runs JavaScript
Over at The Mad Botter I've been working my tail off trying to get a new version of our AI Slack bot Alice out before the end of the new year. As the code has become more complex, I turned to Typescript, Microsoft's programming language that's intended to bring static...
More from Mike:
Apple’s Big Brother Now
I'm sure we all...
3 Features I’m Excited for in Rails 8
Ruby on Rails has...
Are Bots Dead in 2024?
Are bots dead now...
The AI Profitability Problem
In the rapidly...