[flamesofphx]

Honestly, I feel this on a spiritual level — or, well, an infernal one.

My native language is PHP, which, as everyone knows, is the demonically fluent tongue of the Ninth Circle. Down there, variables appear from the void, arrays shift shape without warning, and error messages read like ancient curses. Beautiful stuff.

Recently I tried picking up Rust, which people kept hyping as some kind of angelic, higher-order language… but after using it, I’m convinced it’s just the void teaching itself self-esteem. Every compiler message sounds like: “I’m perfect. You’re the problem.”

So yeah — working in a non-native language is tough. But if I can survive switching between demon-speak and cosmic-void-whispering, you’ll be fine too.

[william-cooke]

Haha I should have been clearer that I meant human rather than programming (or demonic) language. But by the sounds of it, I should be down there in the infernal PHP realms! The boringest part of type safety is surely the safety...

[flamesofphx]

My Bad, I keep think hacker news refers to mostly programming..

[osigurdson]

I'm pretty sure the parent post is referring to spoken language, not programming.

[latexr]

I’m confused as to why your comment got downvoted. It wasn’t rude and the poster even confirmed they misunderstood in a sibling comment.