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Re:Ask HN: What would you look for in a platform to learn pr... by KomoD on Friday January 26, 2024 @01:58PM (#39146505)
> How important are career-tracks and certifications to you?

Not at all.

I used to like https://exercism.org/ for learning a new language but no longer do, maybe worth looking at for other people

Re:Ask HN: What would you look for in a platform to learn pr... by Jtsummers on Friday January 26, 2024 @02:08PM (#39146656)
I've fallen out of like with exercism, but I'm curious what your reason was? I still recommend it for people wanting to sample a new language but I found the exercises in all the tracks were a bit too generic and didn't appropriately demonstrate the unique aspects of each language. Particularly with languages like Erlang and Elixir, they had few exercises which really demonstrated concurrency and message passing as baked-in language facilities. (I pulled it back up, I only found two exercises that promoted using concurrency for Erlang.)