"Given I liked the Scala language, and did not like the Scala ecosystem, what else was there to do but to write my own ecosystem?" #LiHaoyi, encapsulating in one sentence how programmers are. https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/12yearsofthecomlihaoyiScalaPlatform.html
(i love scala's ecosystem eclecticism. most of my recent stuff combines Li Haoyi's remarkable libraries with ZIO painlessly.)