Software engineering doubts
December 2, 2024•137 words
The last couple of days I have this nagging thought whether software engineering is still as enjoyable as it was to me 20 years ago.
Professionally I'm not writing code anymore, and before that I was only 'owning' code, that means mostly understanding, reviewing and making sure no one does anything stupid. And moving tickets around.
In private life I'm also a bit stuck software engineering wise. So I tried Visual Studio Code to write a simple extension, but the ecosystem is huge, full with bloat and a learning curve expressed with infinite coefficients. I enjoyed open source coding but I often don't like the people that come with it that much.
Advent of Code has started but I'm a bit clueless what I'd like to learn next to finish this year. Maybe C++ template metaprogramming (TMP)?