[nurettin]

> Do you have any recommendation on what should I do, read to become better and better every day?

It helps to write a hello world for every hot new tech out there. Not to follow trends, but to actually be knowledgeable enough to have a valid opinion. Think of yourself as a radio station who has to buy or at least sample every popular track. Crystal is hot? Set up a web server and connect to sql. Set up a Vert.X server and write a consumer. Set up a simple neural net with torch, train it a little, load it in java. These all take an hour max each day. An hour well spent compared to scouring books for managers in order to deduce some insight on how to manage people. Developers will appreciate and respect you when you know their job at this precision level and it will make your job a lot easier.

[afarrell]

> These all take an hour max each day.

um, what? If this is based on personal experience I would love to understand how.

In my experience, Setting up a totally new development environment in an unfamiliar toolset generally takes waaaay more than an hour.

[nurettin]

There is usually a gotcha when setting up a new environment. IMO it works frictionless when you are on linux. Android studio installs sdk and ndk so it's like cheating. Linux provides everything to write some c++. Pyenv can easily install whichever python environment you want. Then you can use venv/poetry/pipenv. Snaps can help set up java and kotlin instantly. Spring boot has a website to download a starting template. rvm for ruby, just setting up some environment variables is enough for go, rustup and cargo for rust, etc. Elixir just works out of the box. I don't know how hard the next thing will be.

Do you have an example of a setup you got stuck on for hours?