Flexing the muscles: November leetcode challenge

Most people do a novel for NaNoWriMo, and that’s a great thing.

I am not a great fiction writer; maybe I’d be better if I practiced, but right now, writing code makes more money, so I’m going to spend the month of November working through the Grind 75 leetcode practice set.

I would very much prefer a Perl job, but there just aren’t that many places now that really want someone whose primary is Perl. Python’s fine, but it’s mostly tied up in LLMs and AI at the moment, neither of which I actually find very interesting. (They seem to be more “build a model and hope it does the work you wanted” as opposed to “write the code to do the job you want done”, which I find much more satisfying.)

I haven’t done much with Rust yet, and I think it’d be a fun language to work in, but I don’t see a lot of demand for it yet. Scala is fun to write but I’d rather jump out a window than use the JVM toolchain again. (This also crosses off Java, Dart, and Flutter for me as well.) I have not in general found C++ to be that much fun, and Javascript is what it is. I can write it, I just don’t enjoy it.

So it comes down to two languages, really: Go and Swift. I enjoy coding in both (for different reasons), but at the moment I’m seeing more Go jobs than Swift ones, though that may just be my settings. Certainly when you need a Mac/iOS programmer, you need someone who at least understands Swift.

So I’ll probably end up trying it with both, and seeing how it goes. Onward!