Is there any use in learning an "easy" programming language? (sh.itjust.works)

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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?

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[-] Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 18 hours ago

Avoid BASIC though, never had much use of the hours I spent on it as a preteen.

I did learn alot of useful stuff when I was playind around with arduinos, and since then the market of fun microcontrollers have expandes quite a bit. Its great to see your code immediatly change stuff in the real world even if its just a basic display connected to a thermometer

[-] msage@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago

BASIC, Perl, Delphi... there are many languages you don't want to start with.

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