Development confusion

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Tldr: What dev to work on, tried ml/blockchain/web/android. Anything else, fun and interesting?

My problem: I started with java+android back in 2019, and enjoyed making some apps got bored and switched to flutter because it made designing of apps fun then for some reasons wasn't able to continue, then placements seasons came and I started doing DSA.

For dev part, everyone said to try on ml(absolutely hated it), web dev(got bored), block chain (not interesting), data analysis (boring) now due to work I had to work on spring boot and liked it. But don't see a great future in it plus for open source everyone just rants web dev, and I don't like it. Thinking of kotlin rn who knows when will I get bored of it.

Ps: I love coding and problem solving, so don't hate on me for earlier comments, I just really like to know what can I do more.

fwell · Accepted Answer

I have a profile similar to yours. I got into app dev because of college course projects. Then started doing research projects under professors which had backend work ( networking, scripts to scrape information from websites, data analysis from pcap files of malware apps etc ). Now none of this was exciting to me. I didn't mind doing this work but it never really truly interested me. I took up a course on operating systems and I loved it. I didn't score very well, got a B. But I liked whatever was taught and started exploring that. Multi threading in C++ took me to understanding how node js is successful with single threaded non blocking event loops.

Now right out of college, I work with a team that builds scalable systems with node js. This is something you could explore. Initially even I thought node js was meant for web dev but honestly there's a lot more to everything. You can start building CDN apps that can stream videos or a distributed cloud architecture that utilizes the most commonly known services like AWS, Azure or Salesforce.

whateverthisis · Answer

Did you like working with Spring Boot? If yes, I would suggest to stick to it, does not matter whether you would use Java or Kotlin with it. I had 10 years of working with Java and Kotlin, can definitely say that it would be with us for a very long time.Coding can be fun, but it's mostly a routine, especially the more experience you have. There are also more fun programming languages which are less popular, so finding a job with those would be very hard.Then again, programming is pretty boring in general, maybe it's not for you?

TBird · Answer

I’m like you. I also love coding and problem solving. I also like interesting and challenging projects. As has been stated a lot of work is similar/more of the same only customized. That does get boring and you can burn out.One thing you can think if getting into is more critical programming such as medical software. For example I interviewed for a position that needed 3D knowledge and some scientific work for a medical machine.You could also get into work for flight simulators or weapons. Anything involving real people directly will be interesting.

Palash Nigam · Answer

if you got bored with normal web dev then try something more challenging related to that, study distributed systems and try to implement a toy database or a consensus protocol. if you don't want to have to do anything with backend programming then you can check out systems programming like writing kernel modules or compiler development thorsten ball has written good introductory books on these.

krzyzowiec · Answer

You liked spring boot, and you thought web dev was boring? You’re like my opposite.

I think you’re focusing on the wrong thing. You seem to be concerned with the programming language or technology, but maybe you should pursue a subject area that you find interesting in itself. An example might be medical, or the environment.

Pick an area you already like, and then you become more focused on problem solving in that area than the technologies you are using.

In fact, the particular tech is not that important unless you are utterly repulsed by it. There are still people coding in Fortran, and it’s all 1s and 0s in the end anyway. As other people have mentioned, solutions become repetitive, so pick an area that will remain interesting to you regardless of the technology involved.

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