I have been thinking of learning some programming recently, but I don’t feel confident enough. Is there any point in beginning with something like Zig or Go, and switching to something more serious later?

  • sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    I learned with python and switched to rust when that started to piss me off. It’ll be awhile until you know enough about why you want a different language for a task. Until then, python and JavaScript are totally fine; you may never even need to leave those ecosystems depending on what you want to do.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      3 hours ago

      The thing about Python is, it’s a smartass. Treat it like a smartass and it’ll get shit done, because someone who is a smartass already wrote what you want to do in C, you just have to call it by name.