I’m kinda in the same boat but lately (last few years) have been frustrated as I’ve ventured outside of web tech in seeking new things and found so many nice things in other platforms that its just sad to see “progress” trying to catch up innovation that has happened elsewhere.

I’ve tried closure, elixir and a bit of haskell and all have so many great lessons that are yet to be learned elsewhere.

After developing professionally in PHP, ruby, python and javascript and trying out other languages and frameworks at some point one can see so many great ideas that you can’t really use because the language doesn’t allow it. Like how much more would we have to wait for a normal low level lib for javascript/node, or even things like the pipe operator.

Various frameworks and libraries allow you a glimpse of whats possible, but then when one reads ip on the inspiration behind them and tries them out in their “native” environment, it just kinda sad how much can be lost “in translation”.