I have done Scala for a long time, I had a chance encounter with Spring boot and reflections like no tomorrow style of programming. It was like a wake up call.

I have done Scala for a long time, I had a chance encounter with Spring boot and reflections like no tomorrow style of programming. It was like a wake up call. I knew why I hated the complex juggernaut of the configs and magic but man do I hate to admit, how productive I was once all that was working. Sure someday it would not work and I would need to debug in my IDE but that was rare. I have lived the life of somebody who wants to have every effect annotated, still on some level I believe maybe it can be achieved someday with ergonomics. I have done a lot of rust now and when I look back, I look differently at monads and those abstractions now. Maybe I felt smart using them. There is some value in being able to just look at any library and being able to understand what and how. I have done this a lot in Rust. Scala has some amazing libs and I can't deny that they were immensely powerful, it wasn't easy to make sense of it all though, forget about tweaking and making changes easily. All in all I have come to realise, there is no perfect paradigm, get work done. Use what makes sense. So stop fretting over dart/go, don't bemoan Kotlin, use Scala when you can and don't worry about making everything a kliesli. And really I would not worry about my logger having a side effect. Effect systems still sound cool though, maybe someday. Not worrying about programming languages and code golfing has made me a much better and productive developer, I think.