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[1]Simon Willison’s Weblog
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[2]Subscribe
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Every time an engineer evaluates a language that isn’t “theirs,” their
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brain is literally working against them. They’re not just analyzing
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technical trade offs, they’re contemplating a version of themselves that
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doesn’t exist yet, that feels threatening to the version that does. The
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Python developer reads case studies about Go’s performance and their
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amygdala quietly marks each one as a threat to be neutralized. The Rust
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advocate looks at identical problems and their Default Mode Network
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constructs narratives about why “only” Rust can solve them.
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We’re not lying. We genuinely believe our reasoning is sound. That’s what
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makes identity based thinking so expensive, and so invisible.
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— [3]Steve Francia, Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages
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Posted [4]4th November 2025 at 2:54 am
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Recent articles
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• [5]A new SQL-powered permissions system in Datasette 1.0a20 - 4th November
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2025
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• [6]New prompt injection papers: Agents Rule of Two and The Attacker Moves
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Second - 2nd November 2025
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• [7]Hacking the WiFi-enabled color screen GitHub Universe conference badge -
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28th October 2025
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[8] programming-languages 37 [9] psychology 6 [10] technical-debt 8
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• [11]Colophon
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• ©
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• [12]2002
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• [13]2003
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• [14]2004
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• [15]2005
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• [16]2006
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• [17]2007
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• [18]2008
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• [19]2009
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• [20]2010
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• [21]2011
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• [22]2012
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• [23]2013
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• [24]2014
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• [25]2015
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• [26]2016
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• [27]2017
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• [28]2018
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• [29]2019
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• [30]2020
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• [31]2021
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• [32]2022
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• [33]2023
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• [34]2024
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• [35]2025
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References:
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[1] https://simonwillison.net/
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[2] https://simonwillison.net/about/#subscribe
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[3] https://spf13.com/p/the-hidden-conversation/
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[4] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/4/
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[5] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/4/datasette-10a20/
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[6] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/2/new-prompt-injection-papers/
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[7] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/28/github-universe-badge/
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[8] https://simonwillison.net/tags/programming-languages/
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[9] https://simonwillison.net/tags/psychology/
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[10] https://simonwillison.net/tags/technical-debt/
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[11] https://simonwillison.net/about/#about-site
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[12] https://simonwillison.net/2002/
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[13] https://simonwillison.net/2003/
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[14] https://simonwillison.net/2004/
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[15] https://simonwillison.net/2005/
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[16] https://simonwillison.net/2006/
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[17] https://simonwillison.net/2007/
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[18] https://simonwillison.net/2008/
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[19] https://simonwillison.net/2009/
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[20] https://simonwillison.net/2010/
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[21] https://simonwillison.net/2011/
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[22] https://simonwillison.net/2012/
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[23] https://simonwillison.net/2013/
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[24] https://simonwillison.net/2014/
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[25] https://simonwillison.net/2015/
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[26] https://simonwillison.net/2016/
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[27] https://simonwillison.net/2017/
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[28] https://simonwillison.net/2018/
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[29] https://simonwillison.net/2019/
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[30] https://simonwillison.net/2020/
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[31] https://simonwillison.net/2021/
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[32] https://simonwillison.net/2022/
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[33] https://simonwillison.net/2023/
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[34] https://simonwillison.net/2024/
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[35] https://simonwillison.net/2025/
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