We are on the same page friend! I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one who thinks a bunch of the cloud APIs are insane. I haven’t had to deal with any of t

We are on the same page friend! I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one who thinks a bunch of the cloud APIs are insane. I haven’t had to deal with any of that for about a year now, and I’m quite happy about that. Re: Python and pandas, I haven’t used pandas, but did quite a bit of numpy/scipy/matplotlib stuff in the past. Jupyter doesn’t quite get where you’re talking about, but it does handle the “only have to repeat one step” things very well. I only recently feel like I truly grokked the magic of the Common Lisp restart/repl/debugger stuff. Just the other day I used quicklisp to install a package, and at runtime it failed to open a C library (libsdl2-image.so or something like that). While it was paused asking what to do, I used apt to install the missing libraries and told it to retry. Boom. Program was running, and I hadn’t had to restart it even though a shared library was missing when I started it. Hacking on the little game I was fiddling with, I could C-c C-c as I added features to the game and keep playing it with the changes. Un-friggin-believable. Edit: and yes, if I have to make a backend service these days, it’s generally in Elixir. Not quite the same as the beautiful Lisp stuff, but when your processes are expected to die all the time, it’s really easy to iterate quickly while keeping the system up. I feel like mistakes I make while writing Elixir code help make my overall system stronger.