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I think, for me, becoming enamored by a programming language requires a sense of empowerment by that language. "Now I can build all the things!" It also requires a certain sense of conceptual unity; it can't be too messy. It also cannot be too low level: it needs the ability to do abstraction. And I need to be actually using it a lot for real world tasks; it can't just be for toy problems. In my…
I think, for me, becoming enamored by a programming language requires a sense
of empowerment by that language. "Now I can build all the things!" It also
requires a certain sense of conceptual unity; it can't be too messy. It also
cannot be too low level: it needs the ability to do abstraction. And I need to
be actually using it a lot for real world tasks; it can't just be for toy
problems.
In my developer life there are two languages I have become truly enamored by.
Python in 1998 and Rust, a few years ago. I have appreciated other languages
but this is more.
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