The subjective experience of coding in different programming languages (Interconnected)
I love the analogies Matt uses to describe the vibes of different kinds of coding:
When I’m deep in multiple nested parentheses in a C-like language, even Python, I feel precarious, like I’m walking a high wire or balancing things in my hands and picking my way down steep stairs.
I haven’t done much Haskell but what I did felt like crawling underground through caves and tunnels.
Opening a terminal window to a distant server is like reaching through a hatch with my arm, but a long way; ssh tunnel is well named.
Writing code with GitHub Copilot and Typescript in full flight feels like, well, flying, or at least great bounding leaps like being on the Moon.