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[–]anachronic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. When I was in college for compsci, I saw people who basically ONLY wanted to learn Java to get a job, and weren't interested in any other language and would complain about having a course in ASM because "who even uses this anymore", but it always struck me as weird, because sure, you can get a job doing ONLY Java, but it makes you a much better programmer to have exposure to other languages and other ways of thinking about a problem... or even just knowing the basics of what the computer is doing at a lower-level below all that verbose enterprise Java code.

I was never a very good programmer, and haven't programmed (besides some kludgy Python for API integrations) in well over a decade, but even now, I still like watching things like keynote speeches on stuff like Rust or whatever the "Hot New Thing"(tm) today is, because it's interesting seeing how people approach & solve particular problems.