re: programming language discourse, long
@noracodes I feel like sometimes folks also do this because their imposter syndrome insists upon it.
re: programming language discourse, long
@kurtm @noracodes thinking about someone who wrote her own keyboard driver to control the dos raycasting engine she also wrote, and how she still doesn't consider herself a "real programmer"
imposter syndrome can be really mean sometimes
imo, if you want to be a programmer, you don't even need to have written any code yet for me to consider you one!
re: programming language discourse, long
@kurtm @noracodes like, it's actually kinda heartbreaking how gatekeepy programming circles can be--where self-doubt can get to someone who does things that are so neat! but feels like an outsider still
i feel like a lot of the differentiation between "real vs not" programming languages are half done by gatekeepers to protect a self-worth they have from feeling like they are part of a "rare elite" that doesn't actually exist, and half done by the gatekept because of imposter syndrome, and the resistance they would face if they didn't second-guess themselves