Any_Austin is a youtubet and pilot who uses a pilot’s checklist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAFE

In his everyday life to help him understand why he’s feeling bad or grumpy. He talked about it in his podcast with Memoria.

Reminder that TIOBE is ass and shouldn’t be used for basically anything except for who to target advertising to.

Harmful: compilers

Better alternative: magnetized needle and a steady hand

Mutation (or not) is a matter of runtime semantics, not surface semantics. Let the compiler figure it out. (Functional-but-in-place c.f. Koka, Roc, Lean4)

Purity and referential transparency make writing correct, zero-maintenance code easy.

Although you can extract a lot of money from your customers if you deliver inscrutible code that needs a lot of maintenance.

Modern OOP is an antipattern.

I try to only write in easy language if I can. My favorite one is Lean4.

There’s lots of this vs that discussion in this thread. IMO the most useful such distinction I’ve encountered is languages that encourage you to think about data vs languages that encourage you to think about transformations (of data). Excel and modern OOP are the former while haskell and digital signal processing are the latter.