Counterpoint: wanting to be hardcore is probably not a good reason to do something. If you want to learn rust/go/nim/haskell/whatever do that, and that is prob

Counterpoint: wanting to be hardcore is probably not a good reason to do something. If you want to learn rust/go/nim/haskell/whatever do that, and that is probably going to be worthwhile. Do it to learn more about programming, gain fresh perspective, pick up new skills, broaden your mind, any number of reasons. But don't do it to "be hardcore".