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I really like "zero cost abstractions" as a programming language motto. It's really effective for evaluating design decisions. I've heard it for both C++ and Rust. Are there other PL mottos that are equally helpful?

https://blog.phronemophobic.com/dewey-analysis.html is an absolutely delightful post quantifying Clojure usage. Functions outnumber macros 20:1, the most popular single letter variable is x, and 63% of projects have zero mutable references!

Most of the code I write is in a garbage collected language. I'm often surprised how much extra performance I can get when I can control allocations. I saved ~10% runtime in difftastic by moving to a zero-allocation colour library (owo_colours)!