https://dkwr.de/ very small personal website.
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https://dkwr.de/ very small personal website.
Some reasons I found: - it's a matured stack with a matured framework (Spring)
- there's already a lot of Java knowledge in the company
- there are already existing services written in Java. Why should the company start to maintain another stack?
- there's a lot of Java knowledge walking outside the company. So hiring is easier.
- it's still taught as one of the first languages at universities.
I've only seen few alternatives for language usage:
- C#, but then you lock-in to Microsoft.
- Typescript, but there are still skeptics
Anyway, the number of companies who are adapting other languages like Go or Python is rising. That's my biased perspective as a Cloud developer working in finance, IIoT. I don't know how it looks like for other areas.
While HCI and indoor navigation is a wide area, visually impaired people have another requirements for UX, navigation hints etc. You need to do things more different.
He said that at the time he was doing research there were maybe 50-60 people worldwide who also published papers in the field.
So, when he went on conferences 2 or 3 times he met everytime the same people. But he also said that it's far easier to do some fundamental research in this field.
I never had the chance to try some of these for Production systems or for a proof of concept. This would be really interesting, but I think many companies lean towards Spring, because it is matured, has a big ecosystem and community and stays for so long. And all of this although Spring has a bigger footprint.
So, beside of disabling comments I'd suggest to start writing about something where no one can have really strong opinions. This will give you a good feeling about blogging.
I get sometimes feedback via mail and sometimes hints about bugs in the presented code of a posts. Which I'm really thankful for. Blogging is a great experience and people are really friendly out there. Try it out!
Nice to see that a community-backed project can outlive the official one for such a long time and keep it alive. Shows how good open source can be.
Furthermore they do offer their own package manager to serve Wasm modules. Which is why it is published there.
They are doing a lot of effort to speed up the development around Wasm, but you need to know what you can use with your run time and what is the "real" Wasm/WASI standard.
Here's an incomplete list of the pages which I check on a daily basis.
Tech:
https://lobste.rs/ https://www.infoq.com/ https://simonwillison.net/ https://inside.java/
Art: https://www.artnews.com/ https://www.monopol-magazin.de/
News: https://www.spiegel.de/ (mainly, but others too!)