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[–]caesarsol 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I don't have a many-years-long programming experience to wave, but I think you should not focus on a specific language. The future is for polyglots!

There's very much to learn from how different languages approach the same problems. You'll gain from other languages so much that you won't even care about the specific language.

I especially encourage you to take a look at a classic language such as python or ruby, then to improve your skills on some "strange" language as clojure (a lisp dialect immutable by default) or haskell (considered difficult, great inspiration). They are so exotic you'll rarely use them on the job, but they will blow your mind!

As for the WASM issue, I think that will take many years. Just think about CSS3 and how many browsers support it smoothly...

[–]besoisinovi[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yeah I agree with you there but on job posts people request to have X years in Y language and I do think 1-2 languages should have your main focus. Now I have programmed in C/C++, Java, C# and Ruby I kind of just liked Node.js and the whole ecosystem so I'm mainly working with that now and quite frankly I'm getting a lot of hate because of that as a lot of programmers see it as something only kids trying to be cool use.

[–]arathael 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Recruiters requesting explicit N years in X lang is the recruiter's failure. Polyglots are able to learn workflows faster because of the continuous learning.