boggydepot

Just a thought while reading this post about Jobs on the other side of the sea:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12906019

Why are there so many software jobs? Practically speaking; How many Software do we really need to write?

There's the reason of 'Programming Language' used. But even if we just picked 'Java'; we'd still have a lot of Jobs all over the world. There are jobs that actually write new software, stuff like ML, Driving Cars, etc., but those are just a small fraction of all the jobs - right?

I do understand that Capitalism doesn't care. But I just wanna have a better view on just how much 'Java Jobs' are practically the same (just a little different DB schema and CSS).

Got this little AHK script that got bigger overtime. It's a price checker tool for a game called Path of Exile:

https://github.com/thirdy/trademacro

Where it:

1. activates on clipboard copy event 2. parses clipboard data 3. do a POST request 4. web scrape the result 5. format and output into a tooltip

AHK is great bec:

1. Very easy to use, just like javascript, you only need a notepad and run it right away 2. It has solid support for defining hotkeys. 3. Easy tooltip, but it gets messy beyond simple ones. 4. Small runtime, a few megabytes. This is good since users are non-programmers who don't want installing stuff. 5. Easy for non-programmers to contribute since it's very simple for making macro scripts. Not a must, but good to have.

While AHK is okay, the code gets messy fast and hard to debug if you do not know all the language rules and best practices.

I would like to ask if there's something else I can go for? Have an easier life, statically typed, lots of compiler checks (in AHK, if you got something wrong, goodluck!).