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How was your start into the open source community? (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Honestly, not all that great. I mean I love open source, but I was introduced to programming in a rather private and offline realm.

I'm good with procedural backend logic and algorithms, but haven't really gotten in touch with modern libraries or APIs like I want to.

I do try keeping an open mind, but with so many programming languages out there these days, I really don't know where to start or where to focus my mind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

What do you want to contribute to? General kinds of things would help. I'm sure the community can help point you to a few projects so you can make a more concerted effort if one catches your fancy.

The best thing about programming is, it's all still programming. Once you get a couple languages down, you can switch it up without nearly as much headache. The API's shouldn't be feared these days, at least the popular ones. They're almost always popular because they're well documented and easy to try often as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I need a portable language which also offers fast access to the raw GPU pixel array memory. But I don't have much use in the standard APIs, my algorithms work differently.

Really hard to explain, but my system is completely nonlinear, so standard APIs just won't work for my purposes.