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Hi Lemmy! Confused about what programming language to learn next. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dhruv@lemmy.world to c/learn_programming@programming.dev
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Just a kid with a computer here. I am familiar and have reached a reasonable level of fluency with javascript and python, with typescript being a somewhat satisfying switch I made.

It's been 4 years, I haven't touched another language. I wanna study something future proof and genuinely helpful. The reason I never went beyond js and py was because I already had everything I needed, I could make anything I wanted. I really want to dip my toes in the strong programming waters.

Can you suggest a language?

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[–] dhruv@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

COBOL is probably the last language I expected to recieve as a suggestion, other than esolangs. I'm told COBOL doesn't have fundamental functions like recursion and there's really no support or libraries for it. I don't see this being really practical in the real world.

With that being said, there are quite a few jobs for it. It's certainly an interesting suggestion but I'm afraid I can't really get into this without familiarizing myself with more strongly typed languages.

I dunno if this'll really be of the same level of demand for the next decade or two but it's certainly opened my eyes about it. I had no idea a language like that would be useful till date.

Edit: I've found out that there are frameworks and libraries for COBOL. Damn.