Graduated in 2008 right in the middle of the mortgage crisis.

It was really bad, but I was fresh out of college and had no experience.

Took me about 10 months to find a job in that market.

The market is definitely rough, but I wouldn’t say it’s that bad yet.

This was (is) me.

Love Rails, but found it very difficult to learn Ruby. It's very hard for me to read, but that may be because I come from a C# background.

If you're looking for something like Rails, I'd recommend trying out Laravel.

It's on par with Rails as far as features, ease of use, etc. And PHP was a lot easier to learn for me versus Ruby.

I would say F# is as popular as it’s ever been.

C# is still king, but it’s been getting a few features from F# the past few years.

I thought this too before I bought it, but figured “what the hell” and bought it anyway.

I haven’t played the first one, but the second one is excellent and is my favorite game of the year so far, and probably last year too. And as already mentioned, it plays great on the Steam Deck.

I highly recommend it.

OK thanks for the recommendation then :) I might give it a try

This has been my experience too.

It's either what you mentioned or they have very outdated development practices.

Sometimes both!!

This has been my exact experience too. Wife and I...no trouble conceiving.

Friends in late 20's to early 30's have had a lot of trouble conceiving, i.e. they needed to do IVF.

Not sure what's going on with that, and this is purely anecdotal, but I've been hearing people having troubles having kids a lot it seems.

Are you guys really bragging about your fecund sperms on HN?

What’s your secret? Is it the microdosing?

In no way was my intention to brag. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the parent commenter's intention either. Just people reflecting and commenting on their experiences on this topic.

I'll keep in mind how comments like that come off in the future.

This was exactly me and few months ago and is also how I burned out at my last job. You can add all the front-end stuff to that list too.

I think it’s easy to say we as engineers should make things simpler. I have no idea how to do that in practice on a team though.

Once the complexity started to creep in, seems like a wave just kept sweeping everyone towards more and more complexity.

I feel the same way and can understand where the original comment is coming from. To your point, I also think I’ve reached the ceiling too salary wise.

Was talking to a recruiter who specializes in recruiting for tech and product companies. The C# positions he had topped out at what other languages started at for senior developers.

I like C# it’s just it feels like it’s all enterprise jobs with bad development practices.

Reading this made me sad. I’ve wondered for a long time why no one ever bothered to build a Heroku for AWS.

My main complaint as an application developer these last few years is the amount of time I’ve had to spend wrangling infrastructure.

I think the issue is cost. Heroku, which is itself on top Of AWS, is expensive exactly because it has to charge a significant premium over AWS to work (although it is still overpriced). That’s where Render.com and Fly will succeed, by running on their own hardware they can save significantly over running on AWS. I don’t think it’s possible to build a PAAS on top of AWS, the OP with the I/PAAC would though as they aren’t trying to add a business service layer.

> “why no one ever bothered to build a Heroku for AWS”

You realize Heroku has always run on AWS. Heroku is the “Heroku for AWS”.

Yup, fully aware.

Should’ve said “Heroku-like” instead of “Heroku for AWS”.

What did you end up moving to and how did you do it?

I’ve been noticing what you’ve posted for awhile in regards to interesting opportunities and .NET, or lack there of.

Not sure how to make the switch to something else though.

I have moved on to developing Clojure and later Go. I still want to go back to .NET with C# once the opportunity is there.

Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of fun working with other languages and I have learned a great deal. If nothing else, then I feel these experiences made me a better C# developer. It's just that I feel underwhelmed by what the other languages have to offer.