As someone with health and burnout issues who cares about correctness and fell out of love with C++ some time ago (but hasn't really gotten into Rust or Zig) I feel like I can sympathize a bit with Isabella.
In my case my employer terminated me 2 months ago following an ischemic attack. I had been neglecting my health and working an unsustainable schedule since 2020. Now my family is helping me make lifestyle changes I need.
The experience made me rethink my work priorities. Correctness is important to me but I'm less interested in solving the same correctness problems I've solved for many years in imperative languages like C++, Go or Java when statically-typed functional languages like Haskell offer the promise of preventing many of those problems .
So now I'm teaching myself Haskell. It's not easy but I'm learning a lot and it's helping me understand other languages better as well. I hope my next employer shares similar views about correctness and functional languages.
In my case my employer terminated me 2 months ago following an ischemic attack. I had been neglecting my health and working an unsustainable schedule since 2020. Now my family is helping me make lifestyle changes I need.
The experience made me rethink my work priorities. Correctness is important to me but I'm less interested in solving the same correctness problems I've solved for many years in imperative languages like C++, Go or Java when statically-typed functional languages like Haskell offer the promise of preventing many of those problems .
So now I'm teaching myself Haskell. It's not easy but I'm learning a lot and it's helping me understand other languages better as well. I hope my next employer shares similar views about correctness and functional languages.