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I don't have any professional experience or ambitions, but:
Use nim for personal projects. It feels like there is less boilerplate than others I've tried and it felt more natural to me than python. Faster than python and compiles. Plus has a javascript backend option. Pretty neat language all in all and does an ok job from scripting to web.
Interest in trying? Probably Kotlin. Seems like another language with wide utility.
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- I think Javascript is the language I've spent the most time with throughout my life. I used it to create internal tools at my last job. I'm using it now on a personal project that I plan on adding to my portfolio.
- Python. I find the syntax tends to be straight to the point. But it's so easy for me to get them mixed up with Javascript. The one that I have to keep going back and looking it up is
len(list)vsarray.length. Yes...I did have to look it up to make sure I got it right ๐ - I'm actually going through exercism.org #12in23 challenge (12 languages in 2023). Out of the new ones I've tried so far, Rust, Red, and Elixir are the ones I'm interested in going back into. Largely out of curiosity. I also like learning new languages because they can help improve my understanding of more general concepts.