I enjoy learning enough of novel (to me) languages so that I can do some fun stuff. Usually when I look at a language One of the first things I do is look for

I enjoy learning enough of novel (to me) languages so that I can do some fun stuff. Usually when I look at a language One of the first things I do is look for familiarity: How to map, filter and reduce - and how to work with collections and lazy enumerables, whatever they may be called - IEnumerable, generator, Stream, etc. It’s amazing how similar many popular languages are these days, at least in terms of developer experience. This doesn’t mean they are trivially interchangeable of course. You can’t write Elixir in an idiomatic C# style and you shouldn’t try to!