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Is there any use in learning an "easy" programming language? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 day ago by pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.works to c/programming@programming.dev
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I have been thinking of learning some programming recently, but I don't feel confident enough. Is there any point in beginning with something like Zig or Go, and switching to something more serious later?

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[–] 0t79JeIfK01RHyzo@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The creator of Go has an infamous quote on the language.

The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt. – Rob Pike

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[–] x74sys@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

That’s one of the dumbest articles I‘ve ever read. Glad the author realized it themselves.

[–] GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

So Go was meant to be something similar to Java 4. A language where it is very difficult to shoot to your feet.