"Right tool for the right job," no?
Learn multiple languages.
The whole "I want to do everything in the language I already know" is why the least interesting--and straight-up pretty terrible albeit very capable--languages are dominating our field.
Learn multiple languages.
The whole "I want to do everything in the language I already know" is why the least interesting--and straight-up pretty terrible albeit very capable--languages are dominating our field.
I remember writing a 2.5D "Doom style" renderer thing that let you move around in a bunch of rooms/corridors in real time in MacPerl/Quickdraw back in the Mac OS9 and Perl4 days. Probably taught me more about Perl than I'd learn in several years doing it for a job.
Not everyone wants to be jack of all trades - master of none or have time, energy or capacity to waste their life in hamster wheel of constant relearning of the same thing.
> is why the least interesting--and straight-up pretty terrible albeit very capable--languages are dominating our field.
If they’re dominating our field they can’t be terrible by definition.