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Re:Storm 2.0 by Kye on Sunday June 02, 2019 @09:45AM (#20075395)
I suspect programming has something similar to Gear/Plugin Acquisition Syndrome in photography and music. It's easy to let tinkering with new toys stand in for doing the actual work of creating.

At some point, you have to sit down and do the work with the tools you have if you want to get anything done. If I were to get serious about programming, I would use C# or Go because I found them the most accessible after trying lots of languages. There's nothing wrong with finding a niche.

Re:Storm 2.0 by Fellshard on Sunday June 02, 2019 @11:10AM (#20075938)
True, but I expect you to know which two or three /distinct/ tools you can work with effectively, and which situations they are most suitable for.

Not only that, but knowing multiple languages has a multiplicative effect, massively expanding how you think of programming in all the languages you know, even the stable standbys like C#.