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If this is a career thing, it's usually better to be an expert in one language than an amateur in a dozen of them. Try them both, proceed with the one you like
by jstewartmobile 8y ago
If this is a career thing, it's usually better to be an expert in one language than an amateur in a dozen of them. Try them both, proceed with the one you like best, because in the end, you will be judged by what you produce with it.
No matter how much nerd-cred a language has, it is hard to be productive with a language that you hate.
edit: FWIW, we are commenting on a site by a billionaire who seeded his fortune by writing a program in LISP back when almost everyone else thought that LISP was long-dead and buried.
- steveeq1 8y agoPaul Graham is a billionaire?
- TylerE 8y agoIf not, close to it. Very early investments in AirBNB, Dropbox, ...
- hamza99 8y agoI absolutely agree with you that it's usually better to be an expert in one language than an amateur in a dozen of them.It's not really for a career thing right now, but I like to expand my knowledge especially in systems programming languages, but if Rust become widely adopted, I will be more than happy that I made the right decision to learn it.
- jstewartmobile 8y agoIf by systems you mean drivers/kernels/etc, that kicks Go out of the running anyway.