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I'm pretty astounded by his productivity!. This isn't even his first programming language.

Well said. His work seems to have some elegant ideas. Imagine what he will be doing when he's finished college. Some people are truly brilliant.

I suspect he'll be figuring out more new and unique ways to serve us ads.

edit: and that's no knock on this kids skills / talents!

Then it's on us to make sure that society can provide opportunities beyond putting the best minds of our generation into generating more clicks.

I was working on a compiler for money during my first weeks of university (last year) and if I'm being honest it nearly ruined my entire year because I was completely on the back foot socially.

Combine that with a catastrophic sleep problem and you're in a rough time, in my case.