Native Language
Read OriginalThe article explores the mental process of translating between programming languages, using the author's experience of thinking in Swift to write Python code. It draws an analogy to learning a foreign language, where initial translation is eventually replaced by direct thought. The author discusses how this approach can lead to non-idiomatic code, using examples like checking for empty arrays, and reflects on the subtle challenges of reading code written in a non-native language.
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