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I don't think it's worth studying many programming languages just for the sake of doing so. It's very rare that you get to choose the language to use on a proje

I don't think it's worth studying many programming languages just for the sake of doing so. It's very rare that you get to choose the language to use on a project. If your goal is to be a great software engineer, your professional development time would likely be better spent working on domain knowledge and skills complementary to coding such as communication and leadership.

hk__2 8y ago
> I don't think it's worth studying many programming languages just for the sake of doing so. It's very rare that you get to choose the language to use on a project. Studying languages help you way more than just providing you one more choice for the language of the next project. That’s precisely what this blog post is about.