How did you know you had a watersports fetish?

That's a tough one. I've had a low-key interest in it for a very long time. But it wasn't until I was in university that I -really- got into it, when I stopped repressing my interests so much and searched around on FA for more stuff I liked. At about the same time I was also able to open up to people and admit I was into it, and got to do it in RPs. So to answer the question, it was the ability to openly admit I liked it at all, that allowed me to realize just how much I liked it, that it wasn't a mere side interest but rather a major kink.

Since you are a code lizard, what is your favorite flavor of code? o: (Mine's Ruby/Rust)

I'm primarily a Java/Python programmer, and I've also dabbled in C and C++ (but never used them at work). My favorite is probably Java just because I know it so well, it has the best enums I've seen in any language (though Rust comes close), and I'm familiar with a lot of the more complicated language features like reflection and synchronization.

But speaking of Rust, I've been teaching myself Rust recently. It's an interesting blend of low-level programming but with memory and type safety. The biggest obstacle is the editor, as there's no officially-recommended IDE, so I've been using VSCode with the Rust plugin and it cannot figure out how to run even a simple Hello World program (despite the fact that 'cargo run' works flawlessly). Still, it's an interesting language and I hope I can use it at work some day.

Yeah, I definitely need to do more with Rust. I tend to build everything out in VSCode and use a terminal to do my compiling and other stuff like that versus the built-in tools. I've done work with Java in the past (I currently maintain a Minecraft plugin that's written in Java) but I'm pretty rusty by this point. Maven's neat for that too since I don't otherwise know how to build jars properly anymore since I use VSCode for everything and Eclipse would just be wasting space for me.

I love Python as well and don't get too many opportunities to use it. Since I mostly work with web frameworks, I'm mainly used to using Python in the context of Django. Fun stuff, but I do feel like I have to twist it's arm more than I'd like to get it to do what I need it to, but I could blame that on inexperience.

Maven's my tool of choice for jar-building, doing it directly with javac is a real pain. Most places I work at use gradle though, which manages to be more confusing and convoluted than Maven, and that's saying something considering Maven is based entirely around XML files.

I'm fairly familiar with Django as well though I last seriously used it in 2018 so I'm fairly rusty. Python's very powerful and great for small projects, but the things that make it good for small projects are the things that come back to bite it when stuff starts scaling up. Still, I do like Python a lot, but I generally prefer Java just for having better tooling and for it being statically-typed.