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1 [1]Simon Willison’s Weblog 2 3 [2]Subscribe 4 5 6 Every time an engineer evaluates a language that isn’t “theirs,” their 7 brain is literally working against them. They’re not just analyzing 8 technical trade offs, they’re contemplating a version of themselves that 9 doesn’t exist yet, that feels threatening to the version that does. The 10 Python developer reads case studies about Go’s performance and their 11 amygdala quietly marks each one as a threat to be neutralized. The Rust 12 advocate looks at identical problems and their Default Mode Network 13 constructs narratives about why “only” Rust can solve them. 14 15 We’re not lying. We genuinely believe our reasoning is sound. That’s what 16 makes identity based thinking so expensive, and so invisible. 17 18 — [3]Steve Francia, Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages 19 20 Posted [4]4th November 2025 at 2:54 am 21 22 Recent articles 23 24 • [5]A new SQL-powered permissions system in Datasette 1.0a20 - 4th November 25 2025 26 • [6]New prompt injection papers: Agents Rule of Two and The Attacker Moves 27 Second - 2nd November 2025 28 • [7]Hacking the WiFi-enabled color screen GitHub Universe conference badge - 29 28th October 2025 30 31 [8] programming-languages 37 [9] psychology 6 [10] technical-debt 8 32 33 • [11]Colophon 34 • © 35 • [12]2002 36 • [13]2003 37 • [14]2004 38 • [15]2005 39 • [16]2006 40 • [17]2007 41 • [18]2008 42 • [19]2009 43 • [20]2010 44 • [21]2011 45 • [22]2012 46 • [23]2013 47 • [24]2014 48 • [25]2015 49 • [26]2016 50 • [27]2017 51 • [28]2018 52 • [29]2019 53 • [30]2020 54 • [31]2021 55 • [32]2022 56 • [33]2023 57 • [34]2024 58 • [35]2025 59 60 61 References: 62 63 [1] https://simonwillison.net/ 64 [2] https://simonwillison.net/about/#subscribe 65 [3] https://spf13.com/p/the-hidden-conversation/ 66 [4] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/4/ 67 [5] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/4/datasette-10a20/ 68 [6] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/2/new-prompt-injection-papers/ 69 [7] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/28/github-universe-badge/ 70 [8] https://simonwillison.net/tags/programming-languages/ 71 [9] https://simonwillison.net/tags/psychology/ 72 [10] https://simonwillison.net/tags/technical-debt/ 73 [11] https://simonwillison.net/about/#about-site 74 [12] https://simonwillison.net/2002/ 75 [13] https://simonwillison.net/2003/ 76 [14] https://simonwillison.net/2004/ 77 [15] https://simonwillison.net/2005/ 78 [16] https://simonwillison.net/2006/ 79 [17] https://simonwillison.net/2007/ 80 [18] https://simonwillison.net/2008/ 81 [19] https://simonwillison.net/2009/ 82 [20] https://simonwillison.net/2010/ 83 [21] https://simonwillison.net/2011/ 84 [22] https://simonwillison.net/2012/ 85 [23] https://simonwillison.net/2013/ 86 [24] https://simonwillison.net/2014/ 87 [25] https://simonwillison.net/2015/ 88 [26] https://simonwillison.net/2016/ 89 [27] https://simonwillison.net/2017/ 90 [28] https://simonwillison.net/2018/ 91 [29] https://simonwillison.net/2019/ 92 [30] https://simonwillison.net/2020/ 93 [31] https://simonwillison.net/2021/ 94 [32] https://simonwillison.net/2022/ 95 [33] https://simonwillison.net/2023/ 96 [34] https://simonwillison.net/2024/ 97 [35] https://simonwillison.net/2025/