Programming can be art if you let it. At some point, damn the bugs, and work on what makes you happy. Start something new that excites you. Even if you never fi

Programming can be art if you let it. At some point, damn the bugs, and work on what makes you happy. Start something new that excites you. Even if you never finish anything (or at least finish to your satisfaction if nothing can ever be truly finished), that's fine, artists that never go anywhere (and those that do) have tons of sketchbooks of half-baked ideas. A 6-year effort on a language is pretty impressive despite whatever monstrous bugs are inside. But if you're not careful you'll end up gored by a bug and only be able to drink herb tea for the rest of your days. (http://www.workpump.com/bugcount/bugcount.html http://www.workpump.com/bugcount/bugcount.html) If you want to become better at programming, it's not fundamentally different than becoming better at other things. Take the game of Go for example since that's in my mind. Unless you're a natural genius, just playing a lot is no guarantee of getting good. You need to study. You probably need mentors and peers to play with and learn from. And of course you need to play for real. But always shoot for higher challenges. If you just play beginners all the time, you won't grow much, and may even regress by getting lazy.