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by edef 3186 days ago
> This is such an old programming language flame war trope that it was probably first written in Aramaic.

I love the quip, but

> people literally said it about assembly language. If for no other reason than to preserve your own dignity, please don't imply that people program in a particular language because they're not good enough to program in other languages.

This is an inversion of the sentiment being expressed: the suggestion is to use languages that allow you to shift more cognitive overhead to the compiler and tooling. If anything, I program in Rust when I fear that the keeping track of all the little bits Go doesn't help me with will take up too much of my puny human brain.