Boris Cherny: preference

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…Wow. ... it's always just been very practical for me where programming is a way to build the thing. It's not the end in itself. At some point, I personally fell into the rabbit hole of the beauty of programming. So, I wrote a book about typescript. Actually, at the time, it was the world's biggest typescript [inaudible 00:29:29] just because I fell in love with the language itself. And I got deep into functional programming and all the stuff. I think a lot of coders they get distracted by this. For me, it was always ... There is a beauty to programming, and, especially, to functional programming. There's a beauty to type systems. There's a certain, like, this buzz that you get when you solve a really [inaudible 00:29:54] math problem. It's similar when you balance the types or the program is just really beautiful. But it's really not the end of it. I think, for me, coding is very much a tool, and it's a way to do things. That said, not everyone feels this way. So, for example, there's one engineer on the team, Lena, who was still writing C++ on the weekends by hand, because for her she just really enjoys writing C++ by hand. And so, everyone is different. And I think even as this field changes, even as everything changes, there is always space to do this. There is always space to enjoy the art, and to do things by hand, if you want. Do you worry about your skills atrophying as an engineer? Is that something you worry about or is it just like, "This is just the way it's going to go"?…

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