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My job involves using multiple languages, our small team own packages that include java, kotlin, ruby, python, typescript. Everyone is expected to write in any language as needed.
We also conduct interview in any language a candidate would like to use.
I do believe that learning many programming languages is overrated Learn concepts, obtain foundational computer science knowledge, write complex projects not just get familiar with somebody's interpretations that they implemented as a language. Languages that I used besides my job language barely gave me anything, in most cases they made me appreciate more for sane environment (package managers, IDEs, debuggers, stro…
I think the period where I grew the most as a dev was an interlude when I knew I was changing jobs, including moving countries. From having built trading systems in c++, I ended up building, over about a year or so: - A django (python / js) website. It integrated with both Android (java) and iOS (objective-C) apps that could read QR codes and ask the server stuff. It also made me interact with the app stores for the…
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The problem being, cargocults tend to hold the power. So yes, learn new concepts, practice them and more, but don't be surprised if in practice you can barely utilize them thanks to cargocults insisting they are wrong. We see this in C#. Has a ridiculous amount of features outside default OOP and continues to get more baseline, even has great interop with several other languages. But culture changes very, very slowly…
The reason why I’m not adopting C# is because I’m never going to be a windows user.
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The problem being, cargocults tend to hold the power. So yes, learn new concepts, practice them and more, but don't be surprised if in practice you can barely utilize them thanks to cargocults insisting they are wrong. We see this in C#. Has a ridiculous amount of features outside default OOP and continues to get more baseline, even has great interop with several other languages. But culture changes very, very slowly…
The reason why I’m not adopting C# is because I’m never going to be a windows user.
That said, I get where you are coming from - .net framework is pretty much just windows, and there a large number of libraries/apps that are Windows first, other platforms second.
If you do end up needing to do Windows dev, though, I'd recommend it, same as if I were doing Apple Dev I'd recommend Objective C/Swift, or recommend you brush up on bash/zsh/fish, C and maybe Xorg/Systemd for linux.
You can use other languages on all these platforms but the 'native' toolkit tends to enjoy better interop and have better support.
Different languages also have their own culture and ecosystem, which are also valuable to learn in order to get a different perspective. Some things that are taken as best practices are bad practices in other langauges and vice versa. For example, lots of Java devs are against early and multiple returns to the point of absurdity, while in functional languages this is idiomatic and no problem at all. Using different l…
I find the java example different to my experience. java doesn't have all expressions return values, like if, making the attempt to have single returns from functions much harder to do tidily than in other languages like for example ruby, rust, scala.
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The problem being, cargocults tend to hold the power. So yes, learn new concepts, practice them and more, but don't be surprised if in practice you can barely utilize them thanks to cargocults insisting they are wrong. We see this in C#. Has a ridiculous amount of features outside default OOP and continues to get more baseline, even has great interop with several other languages. But culture changes very, very slowly…
The reason why I’m not adopting C# is because I’m never going to be a windows user.
Different languages also have their own culture and ecosystem, which are also valuable to learn in order to get a different perspective. Some things that are taken as best practices are bad practices in other langauges and vice versa. For example, lots of Java devs are against early and multiple returns to the point of absurdity, while in functional languages this is idiomatic and no problem at all. Using different l…
I think this is my first post on HN, but have been a long time lurker. That aside. Your point around ecosystems is interesting to me. As a wannabee coder I'm always trying new things. Most of my code was in PowerShell although I did do a bit of C++ and Delphi in school. I have been dabbling with dotnet core (C#) and Python the last couple of years. I tried to get into Java a bit, but to be frank the learning curve to…
Google library you need "java http client"
https://openjdk.org/groups/net/httpclient/intro.html - it doesn't look complicated.
First example is using "reactive-streams", you don't have to use that syntax if you aren't familiar (same as in Python there are new features, which beginners may learn later), other examples strait forward.
If library you need doesn't exist in standard library, download jar, add it your `classpath` and use.
Skip any tutorials which are using Spring (unless you want to learn Spring). If you want to write more advanced Java code, learn about [Maven](https://maven.apache.org/)
Same thing about JavaEE/JavaSE, if you google about it, you will find that you may use any, there are different libraries included in installation, it doesn't mean you can't add them later.
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The problem being, cargocults tend to hold the power. So yes, learn new concepts, practice them and more, but don't be surprised if in practice you can barely utilize them thanks to cargocults insisting they are wrong. We see this in C#. Has a ridiculous amount of features outside default OOP and continues to get more baseline, even has great interop with several other languages. But culture changes very, very slowly…
The reason why I’m not adopting C# is because I’m never going to be a windows user.