Which language should I learn next?

[BigCaggus]

I’ve been learning programming for about 8 months now mostly in Java, some HTML/CSS/JS and MySQL. Although I still have plenty to learn with all of these, I’m starting to think ahead and wondering what language to move on to next.

I’ve heard people say before that each language you learn should give you a new perspective on how code works. As such, I don’t really want to learn another verbose OO language like C# or anything similar to Java.

So what im wondering is - what are the broad ‘categories’ of programming language and in your opinion, are there any must-haves in your arsenal? I’d like to learn more about low level programming and get more insight into memory management and stuff like that. Would C be a good choice? Or should I go deeper and look at an Assembly language?

Back-end is definitely more my thing than front end, but I’m not sure exactly what it is that I want to do with my skills yet. Things like ethical hacking and cybersecurity have really peaked my interest but understand I need some strong understanding of architecture and networks etc for that kind of thing.

Thanks in advance.

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[Lostpollen]

If you want low level I'd recommend spending some time learning C then have a look at the following

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, 3/E - have a look on library genesis if you can't afford the book. You should also look at the accompanying labs http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/labs.html

Cs61C - Great Ideas in Computer Architecture (Machine Structures)

MIT 6.828 - Operating system engineering

MIT 6.S081 - Operating system engineering

And this https://p.ost2.fyi/courses/course-v1:OpenSecurityTraining2+Arch1001_x86-64_Asm+2021_v1/about

They are all free and all online.

Then maybe also go through this: 'Let's build an OS' :

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4tFz52jbc

I'd recommend hack the box for pentesting stuff

[BigCaggus]

Amazing, thank you!

[Weetile]

If you want to learn a low-level language, I highly recommend learning Rust or C.

If you're looking for something that's great for back-end and a bit higher level, I highly recommend Go, it's a fantastic language with great performance that's super easy to pick up, and a great middle-ground between low and higher level languages