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What would you recommended first? I'm also self-taught, just JavaScript, typescript and react and a tiny bit of shell scripting. Job never asks for anything mor
by brendanmc6 8y ago
What would you recommended first? I'm also self-taught, just JavaScript, typescript and react and a tiny bit of shell scripting. Job never asks for anything more, but I want to get better at designing, engineering, and building scaleable webapps. So more towards "full stack" I guess.
Haskell sounds super cool, but it seems like nobody really uses it to build things on the web. They mostly just talk about how it "helped them think".
- programmerdude 8y agoHaskell actually could help a lot with JavaScript. Functional programming, writing stateless functions, function parameters, and generally manipulating functions, are valuable and useful concepts in JavaScript and React, and Haskell forces you to learn and understand them. Alternatively, F# could fill that niche if you prefer its syntax.
- kangax 8y agoReasonML is a good transition from JS to something like OCaml