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Have you ever been requested to do a change to a system, but that change should not be visible until it is completed? Have you also been requested to launch fixes to the same system while you are changing it? Then you probably faced this problem.

Introduction

We have all been there: someone asked us to add some feature to an existing system, but that it should only be visible when it is completed. You go off and start coding. Sometime later, that same someone asks you to fix a bug, a high priority bug. But you have your code half done, and you can’t simply stash it. How will you handle this?

]]> Is the Advent of Code a good way to learn a new programming Language? https://www.nunomtsousa.com/posts/2025-02-14-adventofcodetolearnnewlanguages/ Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:38:25 +0000 nuno.mt.sousa@gmail.com (Nuno Sousa) https://www.nunomtsousa.com/posts/2025-02-14-adventofcodetolearnnewlanguages/ As a software developer, you should always be on the lookout for new things and new technologies. You shouldn’t use all of them or play with all of them (who has the time?), but at least be informed of what is out there. You should also try new things from time to time, just to keep the curiosity juices going. This article summarizes my foyer into a new programming language, Rust. I will give you a small background, why I was curious about it and if the advent of code is a good way to learn a new language (tldr: it is!).

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