Yeah that's a good summary

Indeed, and the maintainer opened this RFC (I think because of it)

Plenty of space for me still (browser version on desktop)

Rookie numbers, it's probably 15% on my screen, There's space for a lot more rainbows

Well I was spending too much time with configuration, and (this is the main reason I guess) configuration was very often broken, because plugins have changed too often, so I was continuously fixing the plugins, which was time-consuming and annoying. To be fair that was when lua support slowly stabilized, I think the situation got a little bit better, but even more so for helix (I'm using helix now for 2 years I think).

And also helix is fast, very fast (this was also a reason: instant feedback), you really feel, that everything there is done in the core implementation (no plugin system yet unfortunately, but I have almost everything I need currently with helix, unlimited undo + persistent session would be cool, but otherwise I'm happy).

Also after using it a little bit more, the kakoune inspired visual/selection first makes more sense IMO, it's feels more intuitive ("darn, I miscalculated 3fs, so I'll just press v and go to the next s manually", or multiple cursors as selections, you see exactly what you're doing, no cgn or stuff like that)

Funny, I switched from neovim (after a decade of use) to helix...

Yep this sums up my experience quite well too.

I want to emphasize two things here:

• Learn reading code (by reading code...) of high quality open source projects. It helps getting new concepts and actual creative coding patterns for concrete problems (unlike learning all these "design patterns" in books that IMHO are often just boilerplate generation (hard take I know...)).
• Start coding (open source) projects, especially challenging ones, and keep pushing your limits, by trying to learn new smart things, how to achieve problem X. I stagnated in my workplace for quite some time, got unhappy (around COVID), scaled down working hours significantly (I have quite a spartan life, so I can fortunately afford it), and am coding a lot more open source since then. I think I almost learned more in the last 2-3 years until at least to the years of university (quite some time ago), maybe even more than in university, and have a lot more fun while coding. I think going in depth with a programming language comes automatically, when the project is fancy enough, I learned a lot of limitations of Rust (and thus basically reached the deepest level of (parts of) the language) while designing smart APIs.

Swift is a nice language though.

But I'm obviously on team Rust^^ for various reasons (one being that you can do the whole stack in Rust (not that it's necessarily the best choice for each level, but it really composes well and with a little bit of trait-magic abstraction in the higher levels it works quite well IME)

For ML, python yes, certainly for high-level stuff at least currently. I wouldn't be so sure in the future about the lower stack though, Rust seems to gain momentum there as well (potentially replacing use-cases where currently python is dominant too).

Good that the Fediverse is just on the rise while these platforms are self-destructing (hopefully).

Well at least C++ definitely is far away from cool, you can imagine the rest...

The "best" way to program dynamically typed...

Now combine it with Nix and you're on the happy path