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Sure, the ADHD thing might be a bit on the nose, but the thing is... you've just become really good at being productive with languages that constantly interrupt you for inane reasons. You're productive DESPITE the terrible tooling we have to deal with everyday.

Sometimes it's nice to shed all that bullshit and just create something.

Sometimes, only on languages with the least amount of syntax and semantics you're able to sculpt that fleeting idea you had. Inspiration is very delicate, and it doesn't take a lot for it to die down because you forgot to update npm and your Emacs config is borked.



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