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The best language for a side project is either a) the language you want to learn, the side project is a means towards this end or b) the language you know be
by RugnirViking 4y ago
The best language for a side project is either
a) the language you want to learn, the side project is a means towards this end
or
b) the language you know best, you want the side project to actually be good
- boredumb 4y agoI agree with this 100%, every time i've wanted to get into a new tech stack I start a new side project more-or-less as a thinly veiled reason to learn it and hit my head on real world roadblocks within it. If nothing else you can learn beforehand that you'd never want to use it as a daily driver and drift on to the next big thing.
- dan-g 4y agoThis is the way. A combination of the two would be prototyping in the language you know best (b), and then once you have it working rewriting it in (a). That way you’re only dealing with one novel thing at a time. For me that’s Python (b) and any shiny object (a), respectively.