> I firmly believe that for creativity to blossom you need to be able to get your idea out without fear of criticism and shame.
This section is, it seems to me, the linchpin of the "fun" argument. But you've been able to do that with all the other languages too, all this time. The much-loathed and feared Rust Evangelism Strikeforce doesn't actually come to your house and make you use a bunch of generic-heavy code from crates.io. The React people can't stop you from using vanilla Js. The worst they can really do is send you mean tweets, but Shaw thinks this is a lethal threat to his creativity, enough to switch language ecosystems over. For an article written in a superficially rebellious, lone-wolf tone, that's kinda sad.
This section is, it seems to me, the linchpin of the "fun" argument. But you've been able to do that with all the other languages too, all this time. The much-loathed and feared Rust Evangelism Strikeforce doesn't actually come to your house and make you use a bunch of generic-heavy code from crates.io. The React people can't stop you from using vanilla Js. The worst they can really do is send you mean tweets, but Shaw thinks this is a lethal threat to his creativity, enough to switch language ecosystems over. For an article written in a superficially rebellious, lone-wolf tone, that's kinda sad.