It wasn't "Love at first sight"

This is a submission for the 2026 WeCoded Challenge : Echoes of Experience I started my coding or programming journey due to 10% curiosity and 90% the fact that I did not want to graduate from my computer science degree with no programming knowledge whatsoever. So I researched the field to get into and the language. I contemplated between C, C++ and Python. I eventually settled for Python. The first Hello World on the terminal made me feel like a god, and I have been chasing that feeling since. Maybe that's the reason I preferred the CLI, writing CLI-based applications. I later fell in love with C and Go. Those have been what I've been using for a while now. I still never focused on a field. I just learn what interests me at the moment, from DevOps to reverse engineering, from databases to embedded systems. At least a jack of all trades, master of one is better than a master of one. I eventually discovered GNU/Linux. I was very sure that I was just testing it on a VM, that I would neve