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Re:Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them by brendanmc6 on Saturday April 13, 2019 @02:35PM (#19654849)
What would you recommended first? I'm also self-taught, just JavaScript, typescript and react and a tiny bit of shell scripting. Job never asks for anything more, but I want to get better at designing, engineering, and building scaleable webapps. So more towards "full stack" I guess.

Haskell sounds super cool, but it seems like nobody really uses it to build things on the web. They mostly just talk about how it "helped them think".

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Re:Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them by programmerdude on Saturday April 13, 2019 @03:59PM (#19655385)
Haskell actually could help a lot with JavaScript. Functional programming, writing stateless functions, function parameters, and generally manipulating functions, are valuable and useful concepts in JavaScript and React, and Haskell forces you to learn and understand them. Alternatively, F# could fill that niche if you prefer its syntax.
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Re:Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them by kangax on Monday April 15, 2019 @11:50AM (#19666171)
ReasonML is a good transition from JS to something like OCaml
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