I’m curious if Rust would fall under any of the categories for languages to learn. I already know Lisp, so that knocks out two categories at once. Perhaps Rust fits his parallelism category nicely.
Any language that forces me into a new domain, whether by the goal it wants to solve, its paradigms, or environment, seems highly worth it.
P.s. try OCaml
BTW, I know there are plenty of people who wouldn’t consider that a vacation, and that’s fine, but they are different from me.
most learners eventually gravitate towards Real World OCaml https://dev.realworldocaml.org/ for additional learning.
Unfortunately, the learning resources for different domains out there isn’t as highly curated or prolific as, say, rust. If you do web dev like me, it takes a bit more work to find the tools and put them together. But the language itself lends itself well to systems level programming.
Fortunately, the forum is a great help.
> Learn at least a half dozen programming languages. Include one language that emphasizes class abstractions (like Java or C++), one that emphasizes functional abstraction (like Lisp or ML or Haskell), one that supports syntactic abstraction (like Lisp), one that supports declarative specifications (like Prolog or C++ templates), and one that emphasizes parallelism (like Clojure or Go).
The question being what would Rust add to this list or where would it fit here.
"Modern C++, as defined in the C++11 standard has evolved to become an algorithmic language. This represents as much an idiomatic departure from Object Orientation as C++ was a departure from C’s procedural top-down composition. “C++11 feels like a new language,” says Bjarne Stroustrup [Stroustrup]. The primary focus of modern C++ has become algorithms and generic programming. To this end, the language absorbs a number of idioms from other languages and paradigms, ranging from functional to meta programming concepts. […]" [https://lambdafaktorie.com/modern-c-and-the-lisp-programming...]