My Personal Tech Limbo (and Elixir vs Rust)

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2022-10-06 19:30:56

I wanted to write this article because I need a place to release all my suppressed emotions. My brain is obsessed with programming languages. I’m in the Tech Hype Cycle and instead of deep learning real stuff I’m procrastinating in a paradox of choice, information overload and FOMO hell. I want to pick a programming language to learn and focus on it. But I can’t choose. This article is the sum of all my output considerations caused by my current state of mind.

I have always been a big fanatic about switching from different programming languages: Ruby, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, C#… In the end, I always thought that the language I use doesn’t matter a lot, but this thinking changed when I discovered Scala and the functional programming paradigm. I fell in love with it. After that, I started an exploration into the most obscure areas of programming niches: Clojure, Haskell, Elm, Erlang, Elixir, F#, APL, Factor… and many others.

I have always dealt with these languages passively with the consideration I never used them. But the reality was that I was stuck in the hype cycle limbo: passing from language to language without learning anything. The event that helped me to get out of this situation was joining a motivated Haskell meetup study group.