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Don't be discouraged by this: Actually knowing many programming languages in itself is not something more employers are looking for. The skill is being able to
by gregmac 10y ago
Don't be discouraged by this: Actually knowing many programming languages in itself is not something more employers are looking for. The skill is being able to learn a new language/framework, and if you have some experience building something in 3 or 4 languages (even if you're not necessarily an 'expert'), that's a pretty good indicator you can learn a new one. In general, people with more experience have more languages, and no one expects a junior programmer to know 10 languages.
Being able to become proficient in a new language or framework is a learned skill, which you can practice on your own by just trying to write something in a new language or framework. And the best part, by doing this, you increase the number of languages you know.
- cosinetau 10y agoThat's the reason why I've listed so many: I try to challenge myself to learn something quickly. The other reason is my mathematics background. For instance, I'm not very strong in Haskell, but I can do a thing or two in it and move forward in -thinking- in the functional paradigm. At present, I think I could manage writing "production grade" code in a handful of those languages, and have only spent a non-trivial amount of time in C++, PHP and JavaScript. Testing is also a weak area of mine. Take that for what you will.