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Is it worth to learn javascript for making a little incremental game as a side project ? (jlai.lu)

submitted 1 day ago by roux2scour@jlai.lu to c/programming@programming.dev

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Hello there !

I want to code a little incremental game just for me and some friends, and i started prototyping this in Go (because i know how to use it) but i was thinking that maybe run it in a browser and then use typescript would be better

I have no experience in making games and in javascript, i mostly code for backend and math stuff (my favorite gui is a terminal), and when i need a real gui i use pure html page edited by backend

So i was wondering what would be easier between learning making game in Go, or learning JS/TS for an incremental game (pictures and numbers and text, maybe little animations), and if javascript is still relevant to learn

Thanks !

(Also im a student, so my knowledge of the professional dev world is quite limited, forgive my approximative wording :b)

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it worth to learn javascript

Sure. Learn it and every other language you come across. Why wouldn't you?

[–] roux2scour@jlai.lu 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Dumb me asking devs if i should do dev things :) i wanted to be sure that it was a good direction for my project, + right now a guy named claude is slowly destroying my motivation to learn code further so maybe i just needed to ask a community to find motivation back and feel supported :b

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

This isn't a support group... If you want to know if it's worth it to you to do something then that's a judgement call we can't make for you.

In my, let's just say "many", years of development I've learned a dozen or so languages. Basic, Pascal, c, c++, assembly (x86), Java, ksh, bash, vb, powerbuilder, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, R, go, rust... I never asked anyone "is it worth learning" though. All languages have similarities which makes it easier to move from one to another. But they also have differences which expand your way of thinking. You learn from them all.

If learning is "worth it" to you, then do it. If not, then don't. I can't decide that for you.