you're really not

It is a poor craftsman who blames their tools, but I wouldn't be so poor if these tools weren't so shit.

why not both?

this is me, doing php and javascript on daily basis.
- https://988lifeline.org/
- That's rough buddy.
- Same here. It's not so bad. It get's really bad when I have to work on older PHP5 projects, though. Or shudder WordPress projects without OOP.

10 print "hello"
20 goto hell

I'm a bad programmer.

i have this pep talk with myself every time i have to switch languages for a project (especially between python & java) and i can't remember how to do it at first.

During university I gave additional lessons for lower semesters and at times had to juggle three languages: Java, Typescript and plain JavaScript for that one professor who thought TS sucks.

Coding on the spot got really messy at times.

Me with python

:(
- Sorry, but you weren’t the type I thought you were all the time
- You didn't need that opening parenthesis in python
Try lua as a middle ground. It's object based but more classical with the syntax.
Python isnt bad tho
- It’s the best scripting language I know of, but man I hate dynamically types languages. I am so used to rust and C/C++ that reading any large script or program will drive me insane
  
  And the whitespace instead of {} tokens…

It's both

There’s no such thing as bad languages just bad programers anything outside of raw machine code is Just coping for a lack of skill.

Machine code? If you can't build a circuit to solve your problem it's a lack of skill.
- Honestly probably easier than writing in machine code.

There is no good programming language, even including the ones people do not use.

what about haskell
- Haskell devs like to write code, not maintain it. A bunch of libraries get written, but get abandoned shortly after for something new & shiny.
- If only haskell devs were writing documentations, instead of going "type sigs is all the documentation you need!"
- No!
Clojure is pretty decent.

I'm not a bad programmer, nix is just a horrible programming language

Or maybe it’s the wrong language for the task. Macromedia flash is pretty good for animated websites, an enterprise asset management system, not so much.

My current cross to bear in an app written in Mulesoft because “it’s great with Salesforce” but completely unsuited for bulk data transfers.

Sucks to be stuck with bad choices made before you got there.

I have to bounce around between languages so much I don't really think I'm fluent in anything anymore. I may not be a bad programmer, but some of my programming is bad.