Run faster, work better. Don't overengineer.
Right now, Ethan McTague is exploring the virtues of less.
Let go of unnecessary abstractions and focus on the goal. Your code should be in service to the user. Plain text and raw data are the only truly timeless data formats. AI code is pollution, not a product. Code has real-world consequences. Ethics are more important than markets or trends. Plain old arrays are usually the solution. You aren't gonna need it. We can run without machines, machines cannot run without us. Know your target environment. More code means more problems. No, seriously, you aren't gonna need it. Food, shelter, and healthcare are basic human rights, and a just society shall not commodify basic access to them. If you bought it, you own it. If you own it, you can alter or repair it. Write code for the common case. DRM is antithetical to ownership. If you aren't allowed to see the code, you shouldn't trust it. C is probably a good language. So is Zig, though. Check it out, it's awesome. Absolute loyalty to a language or paradigm is inflexibility. If someone couldn't be bothered to actually write it, it's not worth reading. Privacy is a human right. Privacy is not conditional. Never, ever stop learning.