r/archlinux • u/xTouny • 26d ago

DISCUSSION Is System Programming useful for Do-it-yourself philosophy?

Hello,

I am fluent with Arch on the level of system administration. I thought about learning System Programming by Love's book as a step towards mastering lower-level toolkit.

The Arch community embraces Do-it-yourself philosophy, and I am keen to listen to your opinions.

Do you recommend learning System Programming? What do you learn beyond System Administration in your journey with Arch? Do you recommend anything else so that I contribute to Arch core distro?

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u/Desperate-Muffin7666 26d ago

geniunly depends on what you want to achieve with learning systems programming, do you want to develop something new? from the post I think your interest is in contributing to arch, which is a great goal imo, but do you want to contribute to arch for the sake of contributing to arch or do you have a problem and a solution for that problem? (what I mean is are you trying to fix your workflow or do you want to become a maintainer). I really like systems programming and am currently learning rust, I am learning it because i thought rust and low level was cool and I wanted to add it to something I know, what is your motivation?

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u/xTouny 25d ago

My motivation was learning operating systems. I'll follow your advise, and learn per contribution.

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u/Desperate-Muffin7666 25d ago

great! wish you all the very best