• Ethan@programming.dev
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      7 months ago

      Why? I see no reason to go through the hassle of learning yet another language when Go serves my purposes perfectly and I’m happy with it.

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        7 months ago

        Same reason as learning anything. It makes you better at what you do and broadens your horizons.

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              7 months ago

              Programming languages are tools. I couldn’t care less about learning a new tool just for the sake of learning. My interest in learning tools is exclusively practical - if they help me do my work better.

              I find functional languages interesting, but that’s because I find the underlying theory interesting and worth learning for its own sake, not because I actually care about the specific language it’s written in. Even then these days I’d rather learn about woodworking (which is currently my main hobby) than a programming paradigm I’m probably never going to use.