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> Which is not necessarily helpful when you're mostly not using it When I return to a project written in a language that I don't use regularly, I basically hav
by greenpeas 4y ago
> Which is not necessarily helpful when you're mostly not using it
When I return to a project written in a language that I don't use regularly, I basically have to re-learn the language (maybe there's something wrong with me, but I even forget the basics of a language that used to be my primary driver after I've not written in it for more than a year or two).
So if I need to re-learn a language to make some changes, I think I'd much rather re-learn a simpler language.
- still_grokking 4y ago> I even forget the basics of a language that used to be my primary driver after I've not written in it for more than a year or two Same for me. But "re-learning" takes half a day at most. I just need to get used to it again, remember the idioms, remember the quirks. Of course this is more of an issue if you come back and half of the language changed in the meantime. (Something that's not so uncommon for pre-v1 stuff…)