Because I’m in my very early 20s I missed out on the huge Java craze. Everything was Python when I started getting a more formal education and before then all my work was in C++. Knowing more languages would obviously look better on a CV but I mean if I would benefit in a practical sense? I have two friends who are long time Java devs. And recently another friend who generally works with legacy C++ based systems from the early 2000s late 90s period had to work on a bunch of stuff in Java. Java is clearly still in large scale use among older systems. So would it be likely that eventually I would need to work on Java systems myself when my job is mostly JavaScript currently?

  • @luckystarr@feddit.de
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    51 year ago

    You’re 20. Learn one new language every other year. Try to build something substantial with the languages you want to work with. Choose your languages by job availability and expected salary. Jobs with rare languages (example COBOL) tend to pay better.