> They went with Python2 instead, imagine that

Choosing Python 2 as a sexy new language for a brand new project in 2023 certainly surprised me.

That is just the tip of the iceberg in my experience, with the younger guys eager to use a multitude of Infrastructure as code tools, such as Puppet and Ansible ... and new DevOps tools, often requiring JVM languages, such as Groovy ... and Microservices ... and trendy new statically typed languages, such as Golang and Rust, and ... :)

> my work is pushing most of us Linux deployers to start using Windows now for our client machines

In case it helps, I recently installed Ubuntu on Windows 11 - it's been working well and has made working on Windows much more enjoyable.

In reply to Re: I failed today by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread I failed today by erickp

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