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What are new technologies I should be looking into / learning in my free time? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by calltheambulampssir@programming.dev to c/experienced_devs@programming.dev

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I'm a mid-level backend dev, ~3 years YOE. I wanted to seriously start thinking about expanding my skillset and learning new stuff / new technologies outside of my daily tasks. But I'm unsure of how to start, how to decide, what would be most helpful to my career, etc. Any advice?

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[–] philm@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

I mean I'm being honest I'm a little bit in love with Rust haha, so I can recommend learning that if you haven't yet, it has teached me the most of how to design nice programs/libs (in an efficient manner) and generally just feels nice to write. And a very relevant side-effect: it seems like it has a rapid growth also on the job-market. I really feel that growth in terms of improving library quality and tooling (rust-analyzer is I think really the best language server by now), not the least seeing ever more often something like this: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/06/rust-fact-vs-fiction-5-insights-from-googles-rust-journey-2022.html)