Purely anecdotally, but there's a weird thing with software engineering and architecture where it's heavily linguistic compared to older engineering disciplines

Purely anecdotally, but there's a weird thing with software engineering and architecture where it's heavily linguistic compared to older engineering disciplines. For whatever reason there doesn't seem to be a huge overlap between people drawn to traditional engineering and linguistics. I've repeatedly observed that some people have an affinity for the hardware (and are closer in disposition to engineers in other disciplines), some for the software, and only a smaller subset really enjoys both. So much of what makes api's, languages and complex sytems easy to reason about are their linguistic ergonomics. It's just a feeling but I hold the position that there is still a lot of room for improvement in language ergonomics and density, and that we're still closer to latin than english in both linguistic efficiency & developer tools. https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/06/whats_the_most_efficient_language.html https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/06/whats_the_most... I think DHH (and rails by extension) is an engineer with strong linguistic affinity biased towards financial utility. So it's no wonder that first blog video blew so many minds.