shrug it's getting really easy to spot the AI writing style. I find myself scanning for the obvious `tics' and almost always stop reading when I see them. It's too hard to focus on the content at that point for me.
Re: comment char: I couldn't agree more, went in excited by static typed, and was immediately turned off by this seemingly arbitrary divergence. I kept looking for other uses of, for example, `#` in the language that might explain this quirky comment char, but got to the end of the guide w/o finding any. Maybe the author will reconsider :)
I love to code, as much as I loved math in college, but coding paid better and I'm pretty good at it. Those were my choices though b/c I want to do something I love. Sure, I keep my eye on the "Delivered Value" by making sure I engineer solutions to real problems, but I've never wanted to move out of coding and into managing engineers to build stuff. I want to code. It seems to me that the advice given here would be more applicable to someone who only coded long enough to move into engineering management -- anyway something about it bugs me and I don't think I'd follow it exclusively even if I was starting today.
Python is easier to use if you come from almost any background, programming or not. I believe this is primarily b/c there isn't a lot of "special syntax" in Python, it's all very explicit and common. The same is not true with Ruby.