Re:Ask HN: How would you choose which language to learn?
by AnimalMuppet on Monday November 14, 2016 @03:19PM
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Let me ask the question a different way: What do you need to be learning now for the next five years of your career?
That may not be a language. That may be a programming style (functional? reactive?). It may be a library or a framework. It may be a platform (Android?). It may be a "language" that we don't think of as a language (SQL?).
My current answer is Android (not that I'm making much progress on it...)
Credit where due: I got my version of the question from my wife. She's asked it a couple of times over my career.
That may not be a language. That may be a programming style (functional? reactive?). It may be a library or a framework. It may be a platform (Android?). It may be a "language" that we don't think of as a language (SQL?).
My current answer is Android (not that I'm making much progress on it...)
Credit where due: I got my version of the question from my wife. She's asked it a couple of times over my career.