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Choosing Programming Languages for New Projects: Old Language, Old Project - Or New Language, New Project?

How do you decide which language to use when starting a fresh project? Some follow the adage "new project—old language, old project—new language." But what's your approach?

Some points to discuss:

  • Decision criteria and heuristics for language selection
  • How to balance comfort with growth
  • Learning fatigue vs. focused depth: navigating the challenge of learning a new language PLUS building a new project simultaneously

Everyone and anyone is welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

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Feature(s) You Wish Existed in Language/Framework/Technology You Are Currently Using

What is a feature, or two, that you wish existed in the language/framework/technology you are currently using? Why do you miss it? Does your current language/framework/technology have the feature but it's just implemented differently than you would like?

Inspired by myself and Omar being newbies with Go and trying not to impose our habits from other languages without a good justification. For example, we recently debated if we should use the Testify testing framework instead of Go's built in way to testing.

Everyone and anyone is welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

*Feature image created by ChatGPT.

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Hosting a MySQL DB on hobby‑scale projects: Costs, Quirks, and Work‑arounds

I’ve been experimenting with MySQL on several cloud platforms including Railway, GCP Compute Engine, and other “free‑tier” services. Compared with PostgreSQL, getting a stable, free MySQL deployment has proven trickier (container-related errors, opaque usage‑based billing).

Have you run into the same hurdles? What are your work‑arounds? Any favourite low‑cost hosts? Any billing horror stories? Your tips could help everyone keep projects alive without breaking the bank.

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