Rust is the WORST language to learn first feat. Teej DeVries | 042

In today's episode, we bring back Teej DeVries, the first guest ever on our podcast! Today we are discussing Teej's new course on Boot.dev on Memory Management. In this talk, we discuss the importance of memory, why Go is a C-programmer minded language, garbage collectors, among other technical topics. We also talk about why understanding the fundamentals in crucial in helping you increase your learning ability, how different it is hiring juniors and seniors and why being curious gives you the advantage over everyone else. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm Teej's Twitter: https://twitter.com/teej_dv Teej's Channel: @teej_dv Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:57 Teej will have a course on Boot.dev! 01:35 Why Memory Management is so important 05:17 Go is a C-programmer minded language 07:00 25% off on boot.dev! 07:22 How far in the curriculum will Teej's course be? 09:13 Should you learn Rust or C first? 12:43 Dropping out of college 13:49 You should know WHY you're doing something 15:29 Self motivated learning 18:52 Internal Boot.dev tooling for this course 21:59 OCamls' garbage collector 23:55 Functional language, performance and immutability constraints 30:24 Roc programming language 32:42 Wasm (WebAssembly) vs Machine Code 36:07 C's Standard Library vs Go's Standard Library 37:01 Installing dependencies 41:09 C as an educational tool 43:27 You have to think when using C 45:42 Enterprise machines are weaker compared to local machines 47:43 Why this course is before the Job Search chapter 49:44 Being curious gives you the advantage 51:16 Every program uses memory, so we should have at least some level of understanding about it 54:28 Just being able to speak like an engineer goes a long way 57:14 There are still a ton of jobs that involve embedded systems, not just WebDev 01:00:13 Be eager to learn 01:01:51 Hiring Seniors vs Hiring Juniors 01:02:50 You learn better if you understand fundamentals 01:04:10 Analogy to Dota 2 01:08:54 Where to find Teej Like & subscribe for the algo if you enjoyed the video!