On finally learning to program at the age of 40

Article note: There are several interesting this about this. 1. I've run into the "Very high level languages are too magic and/or too coercive, so you can't feel their power" thing before, and it makes sense to me. 2. It's neat that rust's combination of exposing you to all the details and extremely helpful compiler messages makes a good antidote to problem 1 for people who experience that. 3. The idea of watching people stream programming as a way to pick up programming is pretty novel to me, my experience has been that showing people programming on a screen leads to little-to-no retention, but maybe it works for some folks.