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I’m getting tired of this. Yes I see the benefit of knowing multiple languages but let’s look at the other side of that coin. There’s the dev that is familiar with a dozen languages and writes terrible code in all of them. When exactly are we supposed to be learning all these languages? Nights and weekends that effectively has you working 24/7? Or more likely some developer that has a personal relationship with the C…
I’m getting tired of this. Yes I see the benefit of knowing multiple languages but let’s look at the other side of that coin. There’s the dev that is familiar with a dozen languages and writes terrible code in all of them. When exactly are we supposed to be learning all these languages? Nights and weekends that effectively has you working 24/7? Or more likely some developer that has a personal relationship with the C…
>When exactly are we supposed to be learning all these languages? Some argue that as a professional, you should be spending time outside of work learning to improve your career. You can't expect your employer to give you time to learn. I find it can be difficult though, especially when you want to spend your time outside of work on other things like family and hobbies.
I’m getting tired of this. Yes I see the benefit of knowing multiple languages but let’s look at the other side of that coin. There’s the dev that is familiar with a dozen languages and writes terrible code in all of them. When exactly are we supposed to be learning all these languages? Nights and weekends that effectively has you working 24/7? Or more likely some developer that has a personal relationship with the C…
>When exactly are we supposed to be learning all these languages? Some argue that as a professional, you should be spending time outside of work learning to improve your career. You can't expect your employer to give you time to learn. I find it can be difficult though, especially when you want to spend your time outside of work on other things like family and hobbies.
Playing with a different editor gives me ideas for different workflows and shortcuts which my main editor already supports. Playing with a different programming language shows me how powerful X is which I never touched in my main programming language.
The focus on learning and exploring an alternative is more powerful for me than mastering that alternative. I get the greatest benefit with a relatively smaller investment that way.
Maybe instead of learning more programming languages, just pick small bits of something to explore.
This might make for an interesting app (which won't make money.) Create a sort of "useless but interesting facts" type of app for programmers. Allow people to submit "cards" with something on it and then up/down vote on the card. The snippet could be a term, clever code, or anything bite size. The programming equivalent of "how to say ck in Klingon."
I’m getting tired of this. Yes I see the benefit of knowing multiple languages but let’s look at the other side of that coin. There’s the dev that is familiar with a dozen languages and writes terrible code in all of them. When exactly are we supposed to be learning all these languages? Nights and weekends that effectively has you working 24/7? Or more likely some developer that has a personal relationship with the C…
Jesus Christ, man, I think that team was going to fail anyway. That's super dysfunctional and the languages thing seems like a very small deal.
And once you know enough different languages; design and build your own [0], even if no one will use them.
I’m getting tired of this. Yes I see the benefit of knowing multiple languages but let’s look at the other side of that coin. There’s the dev that is familiar with a dozen languages and writes terrible code in all of them. When exactly are we supposed to be learning all these languages? Nights and weekends that effectively has you working 24/7? Or more likely some developer that has a personal relationship with the C…
I've learned to code methods in OO languages without using loops after I've learned Erlang. No loops means less bugs.
I’m getting tired of this. Yes I see the benefit of knowing multiple languages but let’s look at the other side of that coin. There’s the dev that is familiar with a dozen languages and writes terrible code in all of them. When exactly are we supposed to be learning all these languages? Nights and weekends that effectively has you working 24/7? Or more likely some developer that has a personal relationship with the C…
But this is also to do that many people do not see developing software as a career; more something they happen to be ok at and it makes a bucket load of money. If it's a career, like I decided to make of it when I was 16, you can be an actual senior in a number of languages. I feel equally secure writing large codebases/projects in quite a substantial number of languages after 30 years of learning different languages…
[0] https://www.sicpers.info/2015/06/protocol-oriented-programmi...
The problem I now have is that I don't know if I'll ever be able to master any language anymore. Mmmmaybe C, since I've used that fairly consistently, albeit on-and-off for 25 years.
But whenever I get to an "if" or "for" or function declaration, I often have to look at an example real quick because I have too many fighting memories: is it "if () then {}" or "if then:" and is it "else if" or "elif"? Do I need parens around the clauses? Is it "&&" or "and"?
Mostly I've found that the difference between two languages isn't the difference between two cheeseburgers, but rather the difference between a cheeseburger and lasagna. There's absolutely personal preferences (I still despise Python's whitespace-as-scope, even though I love the language), but they all get your belly full.