I'd call your article on dartfmt[1] a classic as well.

[1] http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/09/08/the-hardest-pro...

"What color is your function" also seems to have leaked out into the general lexicon of discussions about async code.

It's sadly being flung around as a bad argument against async in general though, even when it doesn't apply (e.g. in languages that can use an async function from a non-async function).

Such as?

As a recent addition, Zig is "colorblind"[0]. In Rust and some other languages you can also just run an async function in a blocking way, which will defeat some of the benefits of async functions but prevents color sprawl.

[0]: https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-colorblind-async-await/

This is truly beautiful and thank you for it.

Somewhat disconcerting your tongue-in-cheek language got more attention than one I spent years on, but hey, it's only 1 away in Hamming distance.

It got more attention than the ones I spent years on too. Fame is fickle.

Yours was certainly good for your career as far as I can tell though, so it's not like it wasn't worthwhile. :)