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Comment by moffkalast

6 days ago

Sure but you're also constrained to only one platform. It's like the C++ vs Python argument in ML, yes writing everything in low level high speed highly optimized native code would be perfect, but ain't (almost) nobody got fucking time or skill for that.

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esseph  6 days ago

"Lack of skill" is a real problem I've seen grow over the past decade.

No matter the company I'm with or in conversations with others at other places, there just hasn't been a solid intake of junior programmers / sysadmins / network engineers / etc.

Which sucks, because now there's very few junior staff to teach, which makes backfills harder.

Any junior positions that do seem to happen are just a money funnel to offshoring and the results are /mostly/ less than stellar and ultimately aren't setup to solve the knowledge transfer problem in a meaningful, long-term way.

senko  6 days ago

Cross-platform toolkits are (still) a thing.

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