I write code for a living, and short stories about myself to survive.
@maroun-baydoun.bsky.socialI can only agree!
Maroun
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@maroun-baydoun.bsky.social@maroun-baydoun.bsky.socialSoftware engineers had a suspiciously good run. Now AI is coming for our jobs and the non-techies are sharpening their pitchforks.
I wrote about envy, disruption and a revolution that somehow ended up with a pricing page.
@maroun-baydoun.bsky.socialNow we compile JavaScript with Rust to produce JavaScript that eventually runs inside an engine mostly written in C++.
All to shave a few more milliseconds off the journey.
I wrote about speed, shiny tools and JavaScript’s ongoing midlife crisis:
@maroun-baydoun.bsky.socialThe replacements are fast. Really fast. But JavaScript’s superpower was that its ecosystem largely spoke the same language as the people using it. One language got you surprisingly far.
@maroun-baydoun.bsky.socialJavaScript turned 30 and started hanging out with younger, leaner, faster languages. Naturally, it’s now questioning all its life choices. But behind the midlife crisis is a real question: what are we gaining from all this speed, and what are we giving away?
@maroun-baydoun.bsky.socialSmile. Eat your ice cream. Try to look memorable.
Another holiday, another lesson nobody asked for.
Trapped at a table. Trapped in an alley. Trapped in your memory card.