I find most software development nowadays is just a shadow of it once was.

Use this framework, no use that framework, and the cloud, just use the cloud.

My brother in Christ, your app requires GBs of memory to show me my electricity consumption of the month.

Inflation isn’t just monetary I guess.

“Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?” - Linus Torvalds. nostr.fmt.wiz.biz 

 got it. I don't really have an opinion since I started 6 months ago coding more seriously.

Any recommendations for a noob like me? 

 C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.

This should help you learn the inner workings of C.

You come from a Python background, right ? I suggest you start by porting all that you know in Python to C: data types, files, strings, algorithms, sockets, threads, etc. Take it all and implement in C. 

 that's what I was doing, then I found Go and will continue with it.

Go to me seems like C but "more modern"in the sense that it gives less control to the programmer, which is a good thing for me rn! I don't want too much control, or I'll mess up things! 

 By all means, pursue what seems best to you.

But don’t be afraid of “more control”, you won’t brick your PC.

And you’re not that CrowdStrike intern who brought down half the internet because of a null pointer 😂