I, like many other programmers, wrote my first Hello world in Python. For a good while I was having a blast. Python is what brought me into this world and I have to give it some commendation for that. However, over time, I have drifted away from Python. Here’s why.

Simplicity

Syntactically, Python is very simple. This is a great thing for new programmers…or is it? While being easy to understand is important Python’s strangeness makes understanding other languages a bit more difficult. It is almost like Python gives you training wheels, but never let’s you take a leap of faith and gain the full power of riding two wheeled. For example Python’s Dynamic Typing got me accustomed to making variables with little to no thought. Then when I tried languages like Rust and C I was very confused by the idea of static typing.

I finally bit the bullet and did it. I have always thought about make a blog but I was never really sure where to start. I thought about making my own blogging framework-of-sorts using SvelteKit and a markdown parser. However, I do not have enough dedication to do that.

Then today I thought about it some more and almost fully committed to using Ruby on Rails. Which would be completely overkill for what I need. Then I remembered that Jekyll exists and now we are here.