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What programming language should a comrade new to the field focus on? Rust?
Depends on what you want to do, which isn't super helpful
If you're doing web stuff, JavaScript will always be in demand
If you wanna do games, C# is probably ok for like unity and godot. c/C++ if you wanna get more technical
Kotlin and Swift are the current things for mobile client development, both are pretty good languages to learn
If you wanna do science, then Python is the way to start there, BUT python is also a great place to get into programming as a novice
Python is such a clean language; I love it to death and every time I have to go back to C++ I weep a little bit knowing how much cleaner and self-documenting my code could be
Second this.
Rust is awesome and I love writing and maintaining it, but also it seems like every rust job on the boards is crypto bullshit. I got lucky and was able to learn rust on the (non-crypto, lol) job, which is otherwise mostly python and TS.
all comrades should learn rust to fix lemmy bugs lmao
Also because it’s awesome! But probably not one to learn for the sake of getting jobs lol. Hopefully that changes.
Unfortunately I'm not a programmer I do other technology things but really it depends on what kind of work you want to do. What kind of programming do you want to do? Data? Web? Enterprise bullshit? Something else? That's the real starting point of that question
I'm throwing together the occasional script for solidworks and inventor, so I'm learning to hate VBA
Does solidworks have a python scripting api? VBA is a road nobody should go down
Maybe, it's pretty old but also very locked down. I should check, I think I prefer python and lua over vba
Push for anything over vba
Web and desktop app. From my search, Frontend is a mess of frameworks, react is popular but it’s facebook.
avoid react, please
React’s not going anywhere. May as well learn the basics. Hell, learn the basics of jQuery too. That shit’s everywhere.
Yeah but it should go away
You’re preaching to the choir, comrade. I begged my boss to not introduce React into our jQuery-heavy codebase before we’re done ripping out the jQuery. The interactions we’ve had between old jQuery selectors and React’s virtual dom have not been pretty.
Ew yeah frontend is nasty stuff. The more frameworks you know the better but I stay far away from that for a reason
You trying to get a job? If so, frontend is gonna be react or angular (Google) for a lot of entry level jobs. If you can learn just enough of either to bullshit an interview, you can probably get work eventually. It's kind of hard to learn the frameworks without learning some level of basic coding first, but I guess LLMs have probably made this a good bit easier to deal with.