Because I heard the good word of our Lord and Savior David Sanders [1] in my computational physics class and I've renounced the devious ways of Fortran since.

Because I heard the good word of our Lord and Savior David Sanders [1] in my computational physics class and I've renounced the devious ways of Fortran since. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ1y5NUD_RI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ1y5NUD_RI Concretely, I joined the Julia slack and ran into a very welcoming community of people who helped me learn. Julia's like that so far. Yes, I agree many data science people don't dive into internals - but for some reason these low-level details keep fascinating me so I don't mind some of the pain.