Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?

Re:Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed you... by partisan on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @12:20PM (#12789196)

Same story: C++ at school and VB then eventually C# at work. About 7 years into my career, I started feeling as though I had stagnated. Over the past 4 years, I took the time to learn Ruby (RoR), Scala, some Clojure, Nim, and now, some F#. Each of them has, in some way, made me a better C# programmer. I can't go out and interview for a position programming any of these languages, but they aren't blindspots for me either anymore.

I would suggest picking a language you have an interest in and a project you have an interest in and having a go at it. Then repeat the process with a new language and a new project. At the end, you will have some working software and an expanded perspective.

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Re:Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed you... by kzisme on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:20PM (#12790241)

Have you ever felt the need to try to change positions to try to learn more about the non-work use languages that you know?

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Re:Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed you... by partisan on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @06:40PM (#12792408)

I was heavily motivated to transition from VB.NET to C# to the point where I had an offer at a C# shop. Ultimately, I convinced my department head to allow us to use C# and stayed. I don't think I would make a move exclusively for the technology anymore, but earlier in my career, I certainly did.

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