Wanting to get into the videogames industry.
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I learned Go because I really liked the keyword go
This feels like me wanting to learn Hare because I like rabbits, which I bring up because someone left this reply for me and I think it applies to you too:
That is such a sweet reason! Whimsical decisions like this can be some of the best. Life demands a bit of whimsy every now and then.
Yes I think it’s really beneficial to operate by vibes sometimes lol. Trust your instincts !
I was trying to rank up in Codewars, and there was a 1kyu (hardest and worth the most points) kata only available in OCaml, so I learned it in order to solve.
Perl because a system I worked on was just a bunch of Perl scripts in a trench coat pretending to be a program.
I learned it because the ancient beast kept breaking because it just a bunch of Perl scripts in a trench coat cobbled together over generations.
because a system I worked on was just a bunch of Perl scripts in a trench coat pretending to be a program.
Hmm... OpenBSD ports system and package manager?
Lol. Oh no I hope not, but a totally different system.
I learned lolcode in college because we had to write a sorting algorithm in assembly and "any other programming language."
I learned bash instead of python because my 8 year old brain saw all the parentheses and thought "ew no"...
Experienced me sees a language where parentheses are optional and I think "ew no"
Not really a dumb reason, but back in the day I was stuck in the WordPress developer loop and tired of it. I was pretty familiar with a handful of languages, but wasn't doing much more than setting up themes and building out pages with builders.
One day I heard the CTO talking about a tool he would love to have but couldn't find anything that worked how he needed it to. The CTO was a big buzzword guy and recently shared an article with my manager at the time about how C++ was "the best language". So naturally I chimed in and told him I could build that tool easy peasy and I would use C++ obviously because it's the best language.
It was such a simple tool, basically just matching phrases and categories and spitting out a list of options. It took me months to make, but I learned a lot and it kind of worked for the most part and everyone was happy. I eventually got a de-facto department in the company where I would just build internal tools and handle some legacy codebases that they were previously outsourcing.
I later on got my current job because of that leap.
TLDR: I learned C++ because I was bored and lied that I already knew it.
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