It's being dragged on HN but I like this article because it is honest about the fact that most dev work doesn't actually get any easier with better languages.
That's been my experience, enterprise software delivery/monitoring/debugging still sucks no matter what awesome language you use and sometimes much more because of it.
https://thesoftwarephilosopher.com/blog/2025-05-03-why-i-ever-wrote-clojure.html
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