> what people often don’t realize is just how fast one can pick up atwc style, and how hard it is to ever go back :)

For my own amusement I tried this a couple months ago and I 100% agree. I found my code to be more engaging to develop and understand (function names encoded into 3 chars, structure names encoded into 4 chars, primitive types are a capital letter, etc).

It is like a game you play with your brain to recall how your code works. And, it reminded me about studying 6809 assembly in college, where it was easy to memorize every instruction mnemonic and what it meant.

I just don’t know if I would show it to someone at work, but for my own prototypes and experiments, I like it.