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I always check learnxinyminutes, but it often seems to focus on syntax instead of an actual introduction to using the language. I wish there was more about mem
by Xeoncross 5y ago
I always check learnxinyminutes, but it often seems to focus on syntax instead of an actual introduction to using the language.
I wish there was more about memory management, macros, maybe, generics, http handlers, parallelism, errors, or whatever actually makes language X worth learning. Almost like an overviewofxinyminutes.
- Uehreka 5y agoIt’s most useful if you’ve already learned at least one language with memory management, one with garbage collection, one with static types, one with dynamic types, and maybe one weird esoteric one. Then someone throws you at a project and says “oh btw it’s in Lua” and you’re like “OK, I’ll figure out Lua’s philosophy as I go, right now I need to know how to do array literals, functions and loops so I can get some work done.” So basically, it’s best thought of as a tool to help intermediate level programmers parachute into foreign territory with some idea of where they’re going.
- Xeoncross 5y agoThat's actually my point, learnxinyminutes seems to hide the approach details in favor of just showing syntax and assuming you already know how to think in the language you're looking up. I don't care about syntax as much as I want to know how to think in this language. I'm sure my IDE will point out how to define an int32 for me.