It’s a bad day when I have to be reminded of Groovy. Glad to see it in its rightful place.

Speaking unironically, I worked at a place that had created a tiny ad hoc team tasked with refactoring portions of our decade old monolith. Their lead would schedule meetings with respective teams to gather that tribal info you’re talking about. Was always impressed by how methodical they got.

Parity schmarity. Blaze your own path forward, and unburden yourself from what has been.

I had an AP Stats teacher who lent me a TI Basic book and offered me extra credit to make a helper program for the class. Had a lot of fun making it, and played a lot of Pegs along the way.

Now, I’ve been daily driving Night Owl for a few weeks and this is how I discover it’s maintained by Sarah.

Did it end up being 30 TB of anything useful or important?

Methods are pretty high up, the defer keyword, and struct tags.

But to answer the original question: I think Python is the language that let me love programming. It’s got some rough edges and I’d probably feel differently if I had to work on any sizable collaborative projects written in it. But for noodling and first passes, it’s pretty tough to beat.

But I’d be pretty reluctant to recommend any sizable work be done in it. I prayed I never had to touch any of the existing JS interop. Also seemed like a non-trivial amount of the ecosystem had dried up. The UI testing library we were using hadn’t been updated in ages and its docs site had also died

Spent a couple of months this year being the sole maintainer of an Elm project that I inherited. I’ve jokingly said that I must be one of the dozens of developers using it in production. It’s got a lot of neat ideas, namely its approach to the lifecycle. Time travel debugger was slick too.

I’ve had a lot of great days in my life. But sometimes I can’t help but feel like I’m chasing that high of being 10 years old and being propelled into the air by that blob thing on the lake.

I’m there with you. But truthfully, I struggle to even envision what a “good” coding experience on mobile would look like. Cause even the thought of having to meaningfully use my phone’s keyboard makes queasy.