> My friends usually treat this approach "too amateur" and a "real language" should compile all the way to assembly.
Get new friends—no, seriously. I used to think like them, and hung out with similar minds. It is gatekeeping[0] in a way that, if internalized, will blind you to opportunity.
A few things I missed because I scoffed at them for not being "pure enough":
1) The entire Javascript ecosystem
2) Bitcoin, circa 2009
3) Countless SV startup opportunities from 2001-2015
4) ML and data science (e.g. the terrible tooling)
The success I have found always came with an open mind to people's approaches, even if they were not the ones I settled on. It took me way too long to learn this, but I hope I can change a few younger people's paths.
Get new friends—no, seriously. I used to think like them, and hung out with similar minds. It is gatekeeping[0] in a way that, if internalized, will blind you to opportunity.
A few things I missed because I scoffed at them for not being "pure enough":
1) The entire Javascript ecosystem
2) Bitcoin, circa 2009
3) Countless SV startup opportunities from 2001-2015
4) ML and data science (e.g. the terrible tooling)
The success I have found always came with an open mind to people's approaches, even if they were not the ones I settled on. It took me way too long to learn this, but I hope I can change a few younger people's paths.
[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gatekeeping