Trying to be a minimalist, I've always kept to learning a single programming language for each paradigm or type. Now my boredom (probably mild burnout) is making things get out of hand. I want to learn so many languages.

How many programming languages have you learned so far?

I’m learning Scheme which is nothing like I’ve ever used before (I’m usually Java/python/JavaScript)

I highly recommend!

@DeepHotel I'm learning Scheme as well xD. Which Scheme are you using? I'm using chicken.

Definitely check out Rust. If you can endure the 2-3 week "oh my god who made this fucking piece of shit language" period you'll probably fall in love with it

@12bitfloat I actually am checking right now. So far, I don't like the explicit self for methods. I wonder why it has this reputation though.

@rantsauce Explicit self is useful for expressing the receiver of a method (i.e. self, &self, &mut self or in future even Pin<Self>, etc.)

I learned the ones that pays bills. If you are not using them actively in real world, you don’t learn them also. Just tutorial completion.

@aviophile I agree. Even with active usage, context switching is hard.

I'm writing my own language so that I don't have to work with peice-of-shit syntax

PHP, JS, Node, React, Vue, Swift, Kotlin is what pays the bills these days.

But I spent 4 years in a .NET house back in the day, and hell a year in a ColdFusion house.

I approach programming languages as I do many other things in life,... with the famous words of Winston Zeddemore,

"For a steady paycheck I'll believe anything you say."

You learn one you know them all. Don't waste your time when the day comes, learn it. Lie on your resume if hired, all nighter

@HiFiWiFiSciFi Your right, no human would stack books like this...

The ones I need.

If you're bored, make more stuff in the languages you know rather than learning new ones. It's way more useful imho to have a deep, real world understanding of just a few languages rather than a shallow understanding of loads.

@rantsauce nice! I’m using scheme chez petite bc of the SWL which has been fun

Have you gotten to the point where you're trying to re-write everything you ever written into this new programming language that you found?

@eo2875 No. Only software I wrote in other languages that has bad performance. Dead code is dead code.