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Why I Stopped Learning Python, Ruby and PHP and Went All In on TypeScript

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Around 2020 I made a deliberate decision to stop language tourism — spreading effort across Python, Ruby, and PHP — and consolidate around TypeScript. I haven't looked back. The Context Switch Cost For several years I was maintaining professional fluency across multiple languages …

WASM Tooling — A Practical Cheat Sheet

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The WebAssembly ecosystem has accumulated a solid set of command-line tools that don’t get surfaced well in most introductory material. Tutorials tend to focus on one language path — Rust via wasm-pack, or Go, or Emscripten — and leave the broader toolchain unexplained. This is a …

Why I am using Go more

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I’ve been subscribed to the Go mailing list for over 10 years. But I never really dived into the language. Work requirements never pushed me in that direction. In hindsight I regret not embracing it more. There are some qualities to it that really appeal to me. Particularly after …