i'm personally willing to get paid under market rate to not deal with shitcoinery, or to be able to do something to promote my preferred programming language

there can often be a conflict between those two also, there is way way too many bitcoin and nostr related projects these days that want to build more crap in rust and that really bugs me, i don't want to work in a project where i'm making it harder for people to get away from that mozilla garbage

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What language do you like? Go?

#golang maxi here, reporting for duty

no, i have been in this thing for years, and first started tinkering with languages back in like 1988

most of the popular languages are unergonomic and expensive to compile, or interpreters, that are extremely slow

yes, optimise later, but wen optimize?

i think that there is a mentality about placating some of the insiders who have already learned the complex code of a system, and pimping the supposed benefits, usually of their "expressivity" or "DRY" (don't repeat yourself) properties, but honestly

firstly, expressivity is not a good thing, because it explodes into idiocy (as in, unique takes that don't parse well next to the rest)

secondly, not repeating yourself when you are actually repeating yourself is self deception, and many languages don't make a clear distinction between this and let the programmers write crazy shit that implies ridiculous repetition

this is why i'm a Go programmer

the guiding principles of its architects is clearly towards reducing the costs of production and i think that's really key to actually resulting in a benefit to society