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They have different fixed lengths, no prefix needed to tell them apart.

If you can afford taking a few years off in the first place, you can also afford starting a company and doing your own projects for a while. Don’t leave the field behind, put some software on app stores and pick your topics by what skills you want to learn or maintain. Maybe it even makes money.

I don’t think it’s really less elegant in Python or Swift. Especially not in Swift where you can write it very concisely in some cases, like numbers.reduce(0, +). Admittedly Python is a bit more verbose.

But maybe Python and Swift programmers are not used to it in the same way as Clojure programmers are.