I read this as an expression of preference not a condemnation of other languages. The full context helps Most languages are too powerful for my palate. Don’t

I read this as an expression of preference not a condemnation of other languages. The full context helps Most languages are too powerful for my palate. Don’t get me wrong – I love Rust and many other languages! But sometimes they’re just too much for me. When writing Rust or JS or Haskell or Python or Lisp, I’m overwhelmed by opportunity. Should I make this generic? Should I use classes or structs? Immutable or mutable? Macros? Functional or imperative array manipulation? I try to please compilers and coworkers and customers, but all are disappointed. Give me a woodshop and I’m lost, but give me a simple chisel and I intuitively know what to do. There’s a certain freedom in restricted toolsets. Languages like Go and Elm spurn extravagance. They resist overcomplication. They force me to solve real problems instead of fighting compiler errors and stylistic differences. Furthermore, consistent code makes portable mental-models. Go and Elm codebases tend to be extremely readable.