[sakras]

> There’s just so much “magic” happening in each that it’s difficult to figure out what’s going on. When I’m writing code in these languages, I realize my brain is effectively writing psuedo-C code and then transpiling to whatever language I’m working with.

I feel the same way about these other languages, but for kind of the opposite reason! I write some code in the new language and then transpile it to C in my head just to see what I expect the CPU to be doing. I'm going through SICP right now and I find myself fighting the urge to imagine `cdr` as dereferencing the `next` pointer of a linked list. I spend a lot of time worrying about this stuff when writing other languages, probably to the detriment of my productivity.