This is my mentality but when it comes to my company. I want to have clients for which I consistently produce solid work, no flash, no news headlines. Doing the work and quietly building a reputation.
Unfortunately, it made me even more sad because the project I'm working on now is complete trash. Every line outdoes the previous in the dumbest thing possible. Four years at the company and not a single greenfield project for me, only well established piles of... you get the idea.
After school I played countless hours of Euro Truck Simulator. It was an awesome escapism. Being a truck driver, driving through sun and snow, in different parts of Europe. Crazy drivers at night, needed to think quick in difficult situations.
In what way the article convinced you that Andrew Kelley is not professional enough for a serious project like Zig? Isn't his contribution to the language what's important?
I still don't get the need for QUERY. One can create a search or filter resource with a POST request and then query it using GET. As a bonus, creating a resource allows it to be shared and cached.
There's no such thing as REST spec. The closes mechanism to actual REST is to create a resource using POST and then query it using GET. You have the added benefit of the resource being cacheable.