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Perl was my first real language, too, but I haven't used it in years. Others complain about the sigils and referencing rules but I learned them early, when I was young, so I guess I didn't know any better.

I even had a job where we created a featureful website with just perl, DBI, and no framework except a simple module written by a programmer who left the company before I was hired. I look back to that job fondly, because everything seemed much simpler. Only bad thing about it was the paycheck. :)

It doesn't matter if your thinking is right or wrong. Look what happened to Galileo. If you go against the current on a touchy topic you're done for.

I don't think hooks are a superficial change. If react stayed with class based components, I'd agree with you.

How do you use org-mode to automate pull-requests? Do you make the pull request inside emacs? Are you using it to compile a note from all of the commits in a certain branch? Or something else?

I've spent some time learning it that I don't regret.

However, I dislike the GenServer syntax, it feels too complicated with random tuples all over the place. Also, I feel like the job market is too small. I wasn't able to find a job using it (although maybe COVID is to blame here).

The job market for Elixir is pretty small. Sure, there are a couple of people here responding with specific listings, but still. I was hoping it would have ramped up by now but it seems that it's going to stay a niche player.

This is how I feel too, and I'm a confused how the reaction to hooks is so overwhelmingly positive. I find it quite strange that we need to set up an eslint rule to make sure our function arguments are correct, and it will automatically fill them out if we don't. And I need to memoize so many things! I feel like I'm not even writing javascript anymore.

If you don't implement affirmative action, you'll be accused of racism (due to the uneven final result of a blind GPA filter or equivalent).

>Elixir is one of those languages where everything has been done perfectly as of the time of this comment.

Including GenServers? I find writing GenServers to be needlessly painful. Their syntax is one of my least favorite things about Elixir.

I have 10 years experience, no degree, and yeah, submitting my resume online seems like throwing it into a black hole. And I have always been one of the top performers at my previous jobs. I did get about 20-25% interviews though, so I guess I just need to apply to a large number of jobs and I'll eventually get through.

It was fine for a while; I'm definitely the best at solving algorithms problems than I've ever been, but I want the structure of a job now.

Lived off savings, studied new programming languages, deep learning, leetcode, etc.

10 years into my career, after being under high stress, I quit my job with no plan.

In the small sample size of my jobs, cubicles are getting much shorter.

In my pre 2010 job, the walls of the cube I had were quite tall and gave reasonable privacy. In my 2016 job, they were quite short for "enhanced collaboration". I didn't really feel "safe" in my short cube, for lack of a better word.

If I accept your argument that a mask doesn't stop you from receiving it (which I doubt):

If it were a social norm to wear a mask during an outbreak, and 50% of the population did, it would reduce the spread of the virus greatly. Far from bloody useless. Americans are locked into individualistic thinking: "How will this benefit me?". Also consider asymptomatic transmission.