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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Php? Thats not really the greatest language for someone looking for skills with career longevity

[–]raven9 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I'd go with C. C is like the foundation of all programming skills but its like everything, if you have a project you are really into and you need to learn programming to accomplish it, you can learn really fast but if you are just trying to learn for the sake of learning it can be tough.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Yeah, good call, C should really be the first language a programmer learns

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I miss C so much. Muh garbage collection muh oop.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I miss C so much. Muh garbage collection muh oop.

Yeah I feel you on the garbage collection. You familiar with Rust at all? Its a really nice no GC systems language and even has structs instead of objects, and is becoming quite trendy

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Rust is probably next on my list, after Typescript. I really don't think I'm going to like Typescript at all, but it's all over the place now and I have a JS-based project I can convert

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I spun up a web server in Rust for a little personal project to learn, it was quite pleasant to code (and is quite fast!), if you like C and hate JS, I think you'll dig Rust. JS is an abomination (and a serious privacy and security risk) but entirely unavoidable. I appreciate the TS addition of static typing, but its still like putting lipstick on a pig.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I don't hate JS, but I do hate the fact that a bunch of script kiddies who didn't want to learn another language have promoted JS into this thing that has tentacles far outside the browser (Node, React Native, etc.).