I agree with the other poster saying that learning programming languages doesn’t make you a better coder, just as learning natural languages doesn’t make you a

I agree with the other poster saying that learning programming languages doesn’t make you a better coder, just as learning natural languages doesn’t make you a better communicator. It’s much more efficient to pick a flexible programming language which allows using various concepts (functional, OO, etc) and constructs and then apply it in various domains which exercise those concepts/constructs. Coding can also be learned. Code complete (2nd) is one of the few books focusing on this area - the author calls it construction - and goes into detail about building functions, parameter passing and so on and so forth. Another interesting book I read was Martin Reddy’s - API design for C++. You could try finding something similar for your chosen language. Finally there’s a couple of books by Pete Goodliffe which are language-independent: Code Craft and Becoming a Better Programmer. Naming, comments, error handling - there’s tons of stuff in there. Now onto the topic of Rust and Go - I’ve recently learned both and am about average skills-wise. Go’s easy (the book Efficient Go covers it) and has many sweet spots like network, cmdline tools, heavy concurrency services. Rust is complicated but you can see that it’s a heavy duty language that you can use almost everywhere. Neither made me a better programmer, because I was familiar with most of the concepts they provided. And the new stuff doesn’t improve ones skills, it’s just tooling.