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[โ€“] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Many languages today share so many common roots that if you know one you know enough of the others to get the ball rolling. I went from strictly front end to suddenly working in Python and PHP and similar languages. If you know the basics you know enough

it's very rare that I learn something that I can't pull some knowledge from somewhere else. I think moving to frontend was the largest leap as a whole, just that I'm not coding purely for efficiency and that things are reactive, where on servers most times you want to not be reactive. (Oversimplification). Overall yeah, code is code, every language and framework has it's quirks, but learning your first one is the hardest, second one is the biggest one that you realize how languages differ, and then after that it just gets easier. I haven't learned Go though... should probably do that at some point