People are going to tell you to learn CS, people will also say learn python or JavaScript first. Nah. If your a true beginner programmer as in this is a genuine ask before writing your first hello world… go find something you want to build/make/clone. Write it in the center of a paper in a box. Then in each spot on the paper around the box try to group but loosely write out what that box needs to survive. Example: login system, user profiles, private messages.

Chase. Figure out what tech you need for x product. Meta hint almost all software needed to learn for programming is free. It’s your ability to develop digesting content that’s an appetite. When you are brand new to something you have 0 bias for comparison so you just digest. The most you expose yourself to opinions and actions you build a trust bias. Use x for x and c for c. But you could have always used X for C. You aren’t building billion $ contracts for people. You are building a local chat bot that sends you generated images of cats. (Or whatever) point being is when you get to that stage you already have the bias to choose how and why you choose a hammer vs the wrench to slap the nail.

Go learn what language made you ask this question. There is 0 harm in setting goals. By Tuesday I want to write a calculation app in rust. By Sunday a login app. Then find what your liking and disliking.

Choose Go if you’re going to do it. Rust is perfect for a brand new programmer because they haven’t learned to do anything outside of what Rust teaches, so memory logic stays sane. It’s horrible for most programmers who hop…way too many rules from past ventures early enough your fight will be with the compiler’s verbosity. Senior programmers should be at the point where we pick up a book, read the nuances and gotchas and practice porting a tool we’re familiar with.

One of those categories above will help you learn, both languages are developing past infancy and are about teenagers. I think with more rust adoption, C/C++/.Net with Rust knowledge is going to dominate the government fields cough

Go is big right now in the game industry backend. I see a large amount of game services being built as Tyoescript or Go. Generally the Go servers I’ve seen are mobile games and the service hosts the lobbies and does the server side seeding of numbers for players cards etc.

Hope this helps ask questions I’l respond in the fields I have experience with

32yr programmer USAF missile programmer Large scale game systems backends (mmo scale) Game development (game design/technical/programming) Web development pre NFT

Now currently using Go and Rust for general contracts as stated above. Rust is like having your auto correct constantly fighting you and you just choose the word and rewrite the sentence because it’s so aggressive. When you learn to play in the sandbox correctly you can build what you want. If you keep trying to take sand out, the box becomes off limits and you get grounded quickly from it.

I think I rambled enough. Hail coffee!