I'll post this for the new HN members, since I would've loved to hear this after joining: the companies you want to work for don't give a damn about what langua

I'll post this for the new HN members, since I would've loved to hear this after joining: the companies you want to work for don't give a damn about what languages you know. You want a job? Learn how a splay tree performs better than a binary search tree, and what that says about worst-case algorithmic complexity. Grok the difference between training versus inference, and how a well-trained model can completely fail in practice. Learn how programming can be functional, imperative, or logic-based, and then mess around with Haskell, C, and Prolog. Then use Python to see how all three can blend into one dialect (okay maybe not logic-based). Good companies don't look for languages on your resume--they want people who know their stuff. List comprehensions or decorators don't matter--you have to demonstrate an ability to learn anything, whether it's syntactic sugar or obscure data structures with specific use cases.