I have been thinking of learning some programming recently, but I don’t feel confident enough. Is there any point in beginning with something like Zig or Go, and switching to something more serious later?

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    2 days ago

    When I first started programming I was constantly thinking the same thing: should I learn this or that language? Will it be useful or a waste of time?, etc but it really doesn’t matter. Nearly every modern language has the same core principles of variables, constants, functions and data structures. Once you’ve gotten the hang of those ideas then switching languages is just a matter of learning the new syntax which isn’t hard when you already know how it’s going to work

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      Whoa, whoa. Data structures in C are not at all like in C++ or others because “data management” changes how the whole enchilada is cooked.

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        2 days ago

        Oh yeah, I know, I just didn’t feel like writing an essay nor scaring OP off from programming lol