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I wouldn't worry about it too much. It's the ecosystem and the rest of the frameworks that you'll need to learn, and those will be specific to what you will be
by snarfy 5y ago
I wouldn't worry about it too much. It's the ecosystem and the rest of the frameworks that you'll need to learn, and those will be specific to what you will be trying to do. If you are a proficient c++ programmer you'll have no problem with anything that came after it as those languages usually strive to fix problems in c++.
If you don't know web stuff you should learn web. There was a time I would say every programmer should know C. Today I would say JavaScript.
- turminal 5y agoC knowledge is still way more generally useful than javascript and/or web knowledge. Whatever you think of C there's no denying it's everywhere and understanding it is relevant in pretty much every software system in existence, even when that's not immediately obvious.
- bvaldivielso 5y ago> C knowledge is still way more generally useful than javascript and/or web knowledge "Generally useful" is a vague concept. If you judge by number of job openings, you'll probably find JavaScript is more useful. There are probably metrics by which C is more useful. "Being everywhere" is not necessarily a good measure of the upside one can get by learning it. For example, electronics are also everywhere (more so than C!) but software engineering is generally a better career (measured by income f.i)
- jenscow 5y agoPerhaps the point was, learning C is more of an eye opener than an actual skill. You're going to have to try hard to actually program something in C in the majority of jobs. On the other hand, you'll have to try hard to avoid any C-Based languages. Of course, if someone new to programming asked me "shall i learn JS or C?", I would recommend JS. However, after a few years.. give C a try. Make a throw-away "ls" or something.