I recently came across Forth. My journey was: - Why is shell script more succinct than JavaScript at some things - How would I do something like unix pipes in

I recently came across Forth. My journey was: - Why is shell script more succinct than JavaScript at some things - How would I do something like unix pipes in JS - The JS pipe proposal F# syntax - Tacit programming - Concatenative languages I find for a lot of these esoteric programming languages and paradigms, most people just don't have the right motivation to explore them. So we are just stuck with OO everywhere. But once you pull on the right threads and start questioning the status-quo, you really start to gain a deeper understanding and realize why things are so complex.