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Comment by hevelvarik | Hacker News Reader

Wow wasn’t expecting this to climax with Rust

Yeah that's quite an interesting take. This is the first time I've seen someone come into programming with their first real learned language being Rust. I'll be awesome to see more of this in the future. It gives me encouragement to properly learn Rust as well (my problem with learning languages is that I never actually want to write anything in any language so I can't actually learn the language without finding a use for it).

I’m the same way, I study other things and hope for the day to have to learn a more interesting language than the ones I’m paid to work in. But at the end of the day, taking a step back, there are a good deal of more helpful things for a professional dev to learn than languages he or she isn’t writing anything in currently.

> (my problem with learning languages is that I never actually want to write anything in any language so I can't actually learn the language without finding a use for it).

This also seems the author's problem. It reads like he feels he should ought to learn programming but he doesn't actually have any particular problems he wants solved.

Well, in that case on should look at existing learning materials. Maybe something like Project Euler, advent of code or a good old fashioned dead tree (book).

Write those things top to bottom https://projecteuler.net/archives

Project Euler is so wildly overrated. Not everyone loves number theory, almost nothing in programming is number theory, and yet a large portion of those problems are number theory.

IMO, adventofcode.com/ is much more well-rounded.

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