If you want to be good at something, you have to constantly do it, practice.

One of the reasons I’ve not been as much blogging lately is because I’ve been spending so much time studying C/C++ coding, along with some Rust programming, along with other supporting languages like DuckDB and SQL. A lot of it is just watching videos and reading, though I know the thing I have to do more is sit down and write actual code. The problem is that C/C++ doesn’t provide a natural path for developing content for the blog, and that many of the projects I can up with in C aren’t obvious what to turn them into actual products. Part of it is finding libraries that are useful, and using them to generate good interesting content.

R is my usual standby, but I know while R is handy for coding, and I like many things about that language, it’s no C/C++ when it comes to writing professional software, building things made to last. R is great for quick one-offs, the kind of throwaway content for the blog, but it’s not as great for things you are building to last for decade, or run quickly in a production environment. But between my personal use of R and at work, it’s such powerful tool.