TL;DR
Do you prefer casual or super technical articles?
Let me know
I started a few weeks ago to write in this network and I already feel at home.
I usually like to write about JavaScript, React, Redux and, soon, even Rust.
I would like to be able to write something that you all can enjoy without being bored or confused.
Write in the comments what you think about and leave a 🦄!
Top comments (8)
I like both, I feel DEV has a good mixture of them. Casual for experienced people and for beginners, super technical for beginners and former beginners :D
All the combinations.
I think the best strategy is to write about what you'd like to write about 🚀
Maybe you could find a way to join your passion for performance, frontend dev and Rust and produce an article 🤣
You just gave me the best advice ever! Thanks 😁
"It depends". =)
I can read super technical articles if it's a tech stack I'm familiar with. Everyone has different backgrounds and skill levels so no matter what you're going to lose some people and bore others.
I tend to browse dev.to during my commute (on the subway- I would never read while driving) so shorter, dense pieces are more pleasant than wading through verbose prose. But I'd imagine people that visit from a PC while compiling or running tests would prefer the latter.
My suggestion? Post what you enjoy writing and/or what you'd like to read.
I really love technical articles, specially the ones about embedded or low level systems (something that seems to be not so common here).
I feel like DEV is 50/50 when it comes to technical and lifestyle articles, but most technical ones tend to be solely about webdev or related technologies.
Would it be a good trade off if I write some articles about Rust? Well, as you know, I am a web dev. But I find that Rust is good choice to have low level superpowers and it has great tools for NodeJs or Web Assembly integrations. How does it sound to you?
I'm not a fan of Rust myself, but I'd love to see someone bringing systems programming here, it'd be a great to see a change of pace for DEV.
Bonus points if you manage to speedup something you have, or do actual bare metal programming.
I tried to speedup something at work that used to be really slow. We passed from 130 seconds to under 1 second doing the same exact operations.
The first solution was a Javascript library and the second was a library that I created with Neon CLI with its core written in Rust.
Amazing
Are there any topic in particular you would read about soon?