I am a person who LOVES to try different, new, exotic languages whenever I can. I usually try around 5-6 new programming languages (sometimes including framewor

I am a person who LOVES to try different, new, exotic languages whenever I can. I usually try around 5-6 new programming languages (sometimes including frameworks) in a year. My personal strategy is to try to learn enough of a language "to be dangerous". This means you can create working code with it, probably not 100% idiomatic, and probably reinventing the wheel in many ocassions. The good thing is that it in my opinion the 80/20 rule applies here, as it takes 20% of effort to learn 80% of a (programming) language. The largest benefit is that you are going to be able to try many different languages and decide if you want to keep digging deeper into it. Heck, maybe you love a programming language so much you would even accept a new job just because you want to program in that language. For the record, in 2016 I tried Go, Rust, Clojure, Elixir, Crystal, Swift. My personal favorites this year are Clojure and Elixir. But all the other languages have their own niches with lots of potential. I'll be keeping an eye on them.