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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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[-] tristynalxander@mander.xyz 3 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, I'd like to add that there's something to being dedicated to one language, especially if you're self taught. I could certainly cobble something together in C, but having coded in python for nearly a decade I've built up an intuition for it. I know where things fail. I know what to do when things fail. I know what packages are common. I've built up a collection of utility functions. I know common patterns. Despite never having been taught algorithms or data structures, being committed to one language has led me to learn how to write efficient code in that language (rather than hoping switching to C will magically solve bad algorithms).

My code is still weird as hell and offends professional programmers, but it'd be hard to deny that I know what I'm doing.

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