I lost enthusiasm and then my interest slowly came back as I wanted to learn things. Just in case you haven’t seen this page, I thought it was really cool when I read it years ago: https://blinry.org/50-things-with-sdr/

Is there a course or a book that you are following or did you just dive in?

Thanks, the banking app works!

Learning Rust is a journey. I actually gave up twice before I learnt it properly. I built a simple interpreter as my first project and I found it challenging.

I think that tutorials, and the support you get, is much better now though. Its also a language well worth learning.

I find daily is better than weekly because I can actually remember what I was doing. However, it is mostly just a few hours each weekend for me a the moment.

I like the look of SailfishOS but there is the Ryanair app and a Banking app that I am sure will not work on it. Sometime in the future, I will probably have two phones, one for difficult apps and one with an OS that respects the user.

I haven’t used Kotlin for years but I did do a $WORK project in it once. I prefer co-routines in Kotlin to using async in Rust (which makes sense because it is a higher level language with a garbage collector). I also like how easy it is to write Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) in Kotlin.

Good luck with the job search. Its hard out there at the moment.

I got interested in constraint programming, and I had NO idea how it worked. It seemed like magic.

I have started on following the slides and code of MiniCP, and have started implementing the first steps in Rust. I find it very challenging but it is a great learning experience. I got such a thrill from solving the N-Queens problem in milliseconds from a program that I had written myself.

I am continuing to develop the implementation for a few hours this weekend. Because writing a constraint system is hard, I am also learning some new parts of Rust that I have not touched before.