Learn X in Y Minutes

This isn't a site you should rely on to truly understand a language, but I have successfully used it to learn enough syntax to follow along with Ruby code in a book I was reading.

I imagine if I needed to learn enough Go or Kotlin, or some other language that's not totally a different paradigm to C/Java(script)/etc, to get a superficial understanding (enough to following along a blog post or some simple snippet of code) it would be sufficient and convenient.

I like this site! I’ve referred to it many times while designing my programming language.

I love Learn X in Y minutes! It is a great reference (how do I do basic thing x in language y) or useful for teaching yourself the basics of a language if you know one that rhymes e.g. C# and Java.

I used it recently to get my barings in Bash and then used the terminology I learned from the examples to finish my glue code.

Was this code good and super idiomatic? I don't think so but I also don't care. That job is done and I am on to bigger and better things.

Much like Wikipedia with regards to research, it's an overview and gives you the tools to dig deep but it doesn't really "teach" you any given language.

The Lua one is pretty neat. https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/

Obligatory counter: "Teach yourself programming in 10 years"

http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html

pretty good as a reference

I don't feel you are really learning anything from this site. It's more like a collection of cheat sheets.