i like scala and have used it as my primary language for the majority of my career.

It is waning as other languages catch up, but to some extent perhaps having the self styled elitists move on to rust will mean that a more pragmatic and less dramatic user base is left behind and the intellectual one upmanship that has made scala toxic can find a home somewhere else.

If I was starting out today I'd lean more towards python, typescript and go depending on use case. (I still think rust is over engineered, over used and over prescribed with very few people getting paid to write it)

Anyway I am hoping it turns into somewhat of a COBOL where I can charge outlandish rates for fixing banks technical debt issues.

The civil service and GDS are always trying to do the right thing.

If we had (user) research driven policy the way the digital departments build software, the country would look very different.

Not saying they are perfect institutions but on the whole the departmental digitisation efforts are run quite well within the constraints they have.

I bought ab 11" ipad air and keyboard... it's kinda fun but struggling to see where it fits between my phone for portable/casual and my mbp for getting stuff done.

recently switched from android to ios and it's buggy as hell