[wruza]

As a former pascal, C, assembly programmer I learned perl, python, lua and finally type/javascript (when it became decent) and never looked back. It was cool, but not-worth-it-today kind of cool. When I think about cascade-freeing my pointers again or [de]serializing a struct for storage or ffi, I shudder. We digged the same ditches again and again and again.

I was pretty late into it (ca 2000) and can only imagine the pain of switching banks, mapping windows, dealing with segments and overlays, unloading things. When you hear about “cache invalidation and naming things”, don’t you ask yourself what the hell is “cache invalidation”? Lucky you.

There’s so much you can do today in just a few hours. But if you want that feeling, start with npm-remove-ing your bundler. That’s not the same, but the feeling will be the same.