He doesn't explore the inverse: choosing common tooling for similar reasons. Choosing Python because it feels like pseudocode, Ruby so you can feel like you are

He doesn't explore the inverse: choosing common tooling for similar reasons. Choosing Python because it feels like pseudocode, Ruby so you can feel like you are DHH every morning or Docker so you are a real devops person. And then the other quadrants of the mainstream thing/obscure thing vs. pluses/minuses map: Emacs and VIM are really fast and you can use the same editor and familiar tooling to open a 10Gb file as your source code. And VSCode often crashes or needs restarts to get things working again. OTOH, great writing! I learned a few words. Can't believe I didn't know Gnostic.