Robert Hoekman Jr wrote:
The second you start dividing your time, your coding skills suffer. Stop programming for a few weeks and you get rusty fast. Stop for a few months, and you might as well be learning a language from scratch.
That hasn't been my experience in two decades of writing code. I went ~18mo touching a keyboard for only an hour a day and didn't lose any of my chops. (I wasn't able to keep up with changes to APIs, but I caught up pretty quickly.) I've also worked with people who have restarted languages they "put down" months or years earlier and they didn't seem to have much of a problem.
Once you've learned to think computationally/programatically, it's hard to unlearn. It's like saying if you stop designing you forget how to be a designer.
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