[voppe]

I understand the feeling, but from my experience it fades away pretty quickly once you get the feeling of the language.

These days I'm working again with Rust to add a new feature to a project after not touching it for months, and that feeling of "oh dear god this is awful" that I felt when I was starting out with the language was back again. However, once everything clicked in, with the compiler telling me exactly what was wrong with the code, and the project compiling which meant that I could be damn sure that the code I wrote would work with little to no risk of breaking in unexpected ways... that sure did spark joy.

Just my experience.

[masukomi]

That seems a lot like taking up smoking to me. I took a puff once. "Oh dear god this is awful" was pretty much my reaction. For some reason people experience this, then power through the "awful" until they've ingested so much they can't easily walk away from it.

I've never understood this. Why continue taking "awful" puffs? Why not just use/ingest something else that doesn't feel awful?

And yes, I get that languages are extremely subjective and some folks find it joyful not awful. Good for them. I'm glad they found happy. For everyone else though...