@nixCraft It’s COBOL then.

@nixCraft Fancy types and semantic sugar, do not pay my pizza bills, sir

@nixCraft Delphi 12

@nixCraft Capitalist Lies!

But, I also recommend JavaScript, because of how quickly most people can get a REPL for it, and experience the results of their programming in other ways, too.

@nixCraft Go

@nixCraft The one you enjoy... Pointless getting paid to write code if you're not enjoying it...

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Though, the ones you're likely to be paid to use tend to be linked to what roles you tend occupy.

@nixCraft I really do program in Perl and C for my money.

@nixCraft be the nonsense you want to see in the world.

@nixCraft is it unwise to code as a hobby?

@nixCraft
Done.

<aside>all nonsense<\aside>

@nixCraft PHP.

@nixCraft I'm reading this while working on an open source project to help everybody else who does work like me have an easier day. It's using a language I don't get paid to use, though.

Open source: It's not nonsense, it's applied lessons in solidarity.

@nixCraft I'm not sure how often you get this question asked by somebody that already has a job offer for developing without even knowing how to code. I never once saw that.

For all other instances, that question is valid, simply because there are quite a lot of languages you can get paid for.

Also, while you can get paid developing Rust or C++, I would certainly not recommend that as a first language, unless you want to make somebodies learning unnecessarily hard.

All in all, 3/10 answer.

@nixCraft that would be C++…

@nixCraft I’d better starve to death rather than doing golang

@nixCraft@mastodon.social on the Job Market? JavaScript and Java.

@nixCraft Ruby (and Rails) then PHP 👍

@nixCraft Rust.

@nixCraft Smalltalk.

@nixCraft unless it's Python.*

Imo programming in Python is an environmental crime.

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Idunno, Lua was kinda fun.

@nixCraft swift? I don't know if it's paid a lot in the server, don't expect a lot of companyies uses it, but for sure it's paid for ios/macos apps.

@nixCraft Spot On!

@nixCraft
Isn't the one you learn the one who will pay your bills sooner or later?
I guess whatever language you learn it will pay the bills at one point...

@nixCraft but i don't wanna learn c# in my free time

@nixCraft daddy sugar > syntax sugar

@nixCraft This, 100%.
Do you know x?
No
Why not?
No one has paid me to use it yet.

@nixCraft rust :) even though I cribbed about it just last night …

@nixCraft Is there one that is beneficial to learn in order to understand all others better or that makes it easier to learn other programming languages?

@nixCraft Truth. I would love to learn and use Python and Rust but we use C# and the .NET stack at work and I don’t have the time or energy atm to learn new languages and their frameworks.

@nixCraft Python if you want to start easy and gradually level up to learn harder programming languages like c++ or java. Starting from c++ is also good if you want something challenging.