It's nice to see comments that actually talk about unionizing.
> It's all well and good for the commenters here to say that dream jobs will often have hard conditions, but that doesn't necessarily have to be so if we have government or union enforced labour conditions that aren't predatory.
Kudos to you, for working on the stuff that you really like. These toy projects could teach us or the people that see them, a lot of stuff.
"Senior Developers" doesn't mean that they will relate to everything related to software development. Either, they stick to the domain they work on or, to the ones that makes money.
Personally, I've always been fascinated with systems programming, thought I'm not much proficient or put in much effort. Whether something is going to make money or not, like many personal stuff we do (art for example), isn't eventually going to make us money, rather it gives us a sense of satisfaction.
While I generally understand the borrow checker and lifetime. It proves challenging based on the kind of programs I write or while looking at source of any crate that I use.
I knew Rust has very steep learning curve, but I try to overcome that urge to quit.
I'm not going to say that I'm productive, as I'm at the learning phase.
If I really wanted to write something in a shor time, like in an afternoon, Python is always my goto.
I just don't understand why people go on downvote spree. There are many things here that people can agree on or at least understand.
Many of the common tools (both hardware & software) that common people use are at the hands of few, who can abuse the users themselves or at the request of the Government.
> To be honest ... I no longer think that end-to-end encryption is the right solution to human rights problems. If citizens are reduced to sneaking around and denying their activities to survive, their governmental system is way past due for fixing. This is like the “good slave owners” delaying the abolition of slavery. You’re solving the wrong problem.
> It's all well and good for the commenters here to say that dream jobs will often have hard conditions, but that doesn't necessarily have to be so if we have government or union enforced labour conditions that aren't predatory.
Well said!