After reaching a part where I personally felt like I had a grasp on CS theory I decided that it would be best to start a project in a brand new language that I’m interested in. For a long time ive know that language to be Rust. Rust fills a lot of personal issues that I have in programming and at the end of the day it actually makes me excited to work with the language rather then feeling like im working with the language. ...
To begin my experience as a software developer I wanted to take the time to create something that was something a bit unusual from the standard norm of programming projects. Building something that could at least be used in a practical sense even after the project was finished. jsfetch was that idea, jsfetch is a clone of neofetch written in JavaScript with NodeJS. The idea jsfetch isn’t a brand new idea by any means, there are plenty of similar programs. But I didn’t see any specifically written in JavaScript. Now JavaScript wouldn’t necessarily be the best idea for a cli based tool in a practical sense but it still gets the job done. jsfetch is designed to get simple information from the computer and display it in the terminal in a colorful and fun manner. Now I didn’t want to have the entire project just be me working on it until I was personally satisfied, I feel that would have been counterproductive as a self taught dev because theres always and I mean always cases new devs will never think of because they simply haven’t encountered it before, but that doesn’t mean their ability is any less just un-honed. For this reason I decided to open source the project and take it upon myself to find a team of amazing people who were at the same skill level to benefit from working together. ...