Consider it an opportunity to branch out to new languages and new ways of thinking. It's good to take a step out to fresh air and take off the reality distortio

Consider it an opportunity to branch out to new languages and new ways of thinking. It's good to take a step out to fresh air and take off the reality distortion field helmet that goes with any community of people invested in a particular way of doing things--and I mean that in a broad way, not just technology. I spent close to a decade doing and thinking about things primarily from a JVM-centric point of view. I wrote C for a number of years, I wrote Java for a number of years, then C++, and worked on JavaScript VMs. Let me tell you, all those communities have their distortion fields. There are zombies of all kinds! (heh) I have my own, custom distortion field. It's good to escape and see things from multiple different perspectives. You should feel hopeful! Lots of other things are cool and fun!