Re: [Trisquel-users] What's your mastodon?
I don't use it anymore. Boring stuff.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Should I ignore learning Java and other programming languages that use the Java virtual machine (JVM)?
Anyway web-dev is good area if you need quickly earn money. I was in same situation where I was very needed money when I was around 20. So I learn HTML+CSS+JS+PHP and started to earn. But will be quickly overwhelmed by annoying clients, stupid people, marketing etc. I talk with my colleagues who also work long time in web-dev industry, most of the are leaving. And go to own business, education, management, same Java enterprise etc. Almost everybody disappointed with today's industry. Today making websites aren't so cool as it was about even 10-15 years ago. You have much to learn everyday (I got funny case, I started to learn AngularJS, when I learn new hype frameworks came to stage ReactJS and everybody started to use it in industry and forgot about Angular), but old-school people already have own families, children, other problems. Old school web-devs are mostly 35+ yo. and they simply don't have time to spend 1-2 hours everyday for learning new stuff which is constantly comes to play with huge speed.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Should I ignore learning Java and other programming languages that use the Java virtual machine (JVM)?
Modern PHP isn't so bad as it's described. Agree that older versions of PHP were absolutely awful. Today it's pretty nice language. Problem of the PHP that it has huge crappy written code-base behind and army of unprofessional programmers. In my opinion JavaScript is **much more** confused than PHP. Today situation in JS world is much worse than in PHP. Around JS a lot of hypists, cool kids, marketers, amateurs who write code and have absolutely no idea about: data structures, algorithms, optimizations etc. There are good JS programmers, but too few of them. Also released another Bastard languages from Microsoft TypeScript. Which transpiles shitty language into another shitty language. For me enough, sorry, by web-dev. If I was young today and started to do web-dev. I'd choose Python. It is just my opinion.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Should I ignore learning Java and other programming languages that use the Java virtual machine (JVM)?
I worked as web-developer about 15 years and can give you a quick review about language and industry. Haskell First of all about Haskell. It was my misunderstanding. There nothing wrong about Haskell in freedom terms. But Haskell is more academic languages and there are aren't much jobs there. In my opinion Haskell is more like hobby language. Java Java today is mostly used in large enterprise and also banks love Java. Small company avoids Java due to price of development and project-scaling. About 99% websites are small and Java is overkill for it. Development becomes too expensive. If you are going to work in large enterprise then you need to learn it. Once I got some job offers from Banks who started refactoring their old system written in C++ to Java. Kotlin, Scala Clojure aren't also popular and they looks like over-hyped thing like Ruby was in 2006 see below. Java contains a lot of non-free stuff. Ruby I don't recommend to learn Ruby novadays. It's hype is passed. I remember Ruby-mania in 2006-2008 where everybody was crazy about Ruby and Ruby-on-rails. Today very rarely somebody starts new project in Ruby[on Rails]. At job you will probably will support legacy systems which are once written in Ruby. Rust, Erlang, Elixir. Cannot say much about that they aren't so popular and also not too much jobs there. Python Looks promising people slowly stated to Python web-development and started very slowly and carefully replace PHP stuff. I also like Python it is logical, simple languages. But it has one big flaw. It's performance is almost same slow as Ruby. PHP It's a still giant-bastard which controls more that 60-70% of the web, read Wordpress, Drupal (Trisquel website also Drupal), Joomala, Sroomla and other crap. PHP never dies, too many shit code already is written in PHP for decades. It will be forever in web :) And you will always can have bread on the table doing PHP. But it's codebase extremely crappy. JavaScript/NodeJS JS is the most shitty programming language ever made, some moments are absolutely illogical, languages design is a huge mess, where Number is not a number, funcions are object, object are functions and arrays etc. This is the most over-hyped languages today and every kid today writes in JS. Actually JS is the reason why I finally left web-development profession. The industry because extreme mess of crappy frameworks, packages, not needed tools, bastard syntax, a lot of kids. If you want to quickly make money you can jump onto this hype trends. But you will every month new framework and new tool. I think JS is non-free by it's nature. Today web-development in general extremely unstable and messy area, where I don't want to anymore. It's completely f**ked up.
[Trisquel-users] Why Trisquel website isn't translated into Russian?
Russian language is the official working language in UN. There about 291M native Russian speaking people around the World. In Russian world there are a lot talented programmers, engineers, 'linuxoids' etc. Due to recent political tensions last time, as far I know government of Russian Federation looking for IT technologies replacement. Even they started to own OS ReactOS (I am not sure that this is 200% of Russian development, but government do some invest there, but doesn't matter right now). Also they using some GNU/Linuxes stuff for military purposes. Only idiot will install Windows on the detecton missile systems :-). So I think Triquel website could be translated into Russian. Community can get a lot of talented people or those are interested in free software philosophy. Is there any technical obstacles to do this? Or any other reason? For example my native language is Russian, but not living in RF since my birth. I could at free time (yes! yes! free time is very limited resource :-) ) start to translate pages 1 by 1. Thanks for your read.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to start contribute
Thank you for your detailed answer, it is very useful for me. Of course I continue to work at my job as senior web-developers in current company where I work. Because I have family who depends on me. But I want to deal with Free Software for my soul not for money.
[Trisquel-users] How to start contribute
Greetings friends! Recently I got inspired by FSF movement. Really good ideas which are really close to me. I work about 15 years as web-developer, but recently this web-development stuff became very commercialized. There already tons of the crappy programming experience and infinite crappy frameworks where one is worst than other. In my opinion this trends will lead to nowhere, as the software development as well. I even don't say about privacy, moral and psychologic aspects, people went crazy with these "fancy" technologies, but seems that they don't give too much happiness in people's lives. I would like to be a part of FSF. I already tried Trisquel once, on common laptop, a lot of stuff didn't worked like WiFi this is OK. no libre drivers - understandable. I am going to buy libre laptop and start to support FSF movement, but I dont know where from to start. Where is the entry point to start contribute? The first step is a bit messy for me, if I would like to start contribute Trisquel. Really hard to find starting point. I have skills which can be useful for the movement. I use HTML, CSS, JavaScript as expert. Last year I started to learn C, have future ambitions to dig in Licux kernel. Using Linux for many years, mostly as common user, can write and understand BASH scripts. PS.I continue to work only because my family wants to eat as well, but no pleasure at work anymore. Supporting and contributing FSF movement is good for my soul. Hope for your wise advice. Best wishes!
