Ask HN: Functional or Imperative programing future of AI/robotics?

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As somebody planning to work my way into AI development and robotics in the future(~5 years from now), what is the best programing style to learn for each?

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Nobody can answer this question as there is no objective way to measure "best" in terms of programming styles.

In 5 years you'll likely/hopefully be proficient enough to wrangle both styles into whichever problem is best addressed by that style.

Just learn to program first, in whatever style you find easiest to learn. Once you learn your first language you'll find it's simple to pick up other languages and paradigms.

Thanks for the reply...I've been doing Javascript for a little more than a year and while it's fun I was planning on moving to C++ as there'll be more opportunities to what's possible especially in the coming years with AR/VR becoming more popular and the the development of Web assembly. I also have interests in robotics due to my mechanical engineering background which is another reason why I'm choosing C++.

Since I'm basing this choice just in some Google searches and don't understand quite a bit of what they talk about, would you happen to have any input on this? Is C++ a good choice? As opposed to C?

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