Christopher Grainger's Code BEAM Europe 2023 presentation is live on YouTube. It is amazing to see what a company like Amplified AI (https://www.amplified.ai) has done with Elixir, Axon and Livebook.
As a person from the US who recently moved to Sweden, this article has finally given me some words to explain the cultural "clash" I experience at work that I could never quite explain to myself or others.
I assume you are getting downvoted for not adding context so I’ll help; urbit is literally designed around the principle of total ownership. The community (purposefully) does a terrible job of explaining it because of some enlightenment complex but the promo video put out by Tlon does a pretty good job of summarizing. https://youtu.be/M04AKTCDavc
I believe urbit is the solution, just waiting for the implementation to get polished up.
I see that they've updated their website since I last looked at it. They still use some abstract art and meaningless pictures of nature to explain their concepts, but at least the description makes sense now.
Sadly the system cannot be used easily for any applications storing personal information since your identity is tied to a blockchain and the GDPR requires companies to make information deletable.
The reliance on abstract art for trying to make their points come across are still to vague for me to give the project a try, but who knows, maybe in another year or two the project and its concepts will actually be understandable enough for me to give it a shot.
Urbit does seem to have an over abundance of weird jargon and glyphs that reinvent existing technologies, it just reeks of techno-alchemy.
As to your second point, I'm curious if any decentralized system will ever allow for full deletion of information once it has been replicated by another client. Any gossip protocol, or decentralized CRDT document system has to take into account that a client will go offline and retain information once it has been released into the wild. Whether or not a request to "delete" or hide that information is followed through with is almost impossible to regulate. It's perhaps more important to realize that what we publish, may always exist out there.
That being said, clients could randomly ask for "tombstoned" information to verify that other clients comply to a delete request, but it will likely always exist somewhere.
Not sure what kind of roles you are looking for but for some particular technologies there are specific job posting platforms like Elixir Jobs (https://elixirjobs.net/)
I believe a goal of the project is to be interoperable with Node (https://deno.land/std/node) so I don't a complete replacement is something that will happen.
With inspiration from Go, the underlying implementation in Rust, a focus on developer simplicity (single binary workflow) , Deno is already a great developer experience and will only get better.
I am currently a senior in computer science and from what I saw in the http://teachyourselfcs.com link, that is basically all you would need to know to get started in most sub fields of software engineering. I wouldn't expect many companies to expect you to know much more than that. I would just focus on taking your newly learned knowledge and build awesome projects. That has been key in landing the internships that I have had in the past couple years. Best of luck!
