I get the "opportunity" to be a shitty developer in multiple languages all at the same time - Python, Scala, Angular, and Java, to name a few main ones.
All these people naming just one language (or even 2) are making me jealous. I'd probably be less shitty if I got to focus.
I don't think that being able to develop in multiple languages implies that you're going to be bad at developing in those languages at all.
I've been a dev for a very long time, and am competent in a lot of different languages (expert in far fewer, of course). But I don't use all of those languages all the time. I use the one(s) that are relevant to whatever my current project is. That's usually just one or two at a time.
I have to interact with a platform called Mulesoft which has its own DSL for message transformation.
It's an API interconnection tool. It's for big organizations or governments and if anybody here on HN is considering it I cannot express how bad the DX is for engineers unfortunate enough to be saddled with this "enterprise solution"
I use mostly .net/c#, lots of sql, some JavaScript/jquery. Keep in mind though that asking this on HackerNews (or any website to be honest) is automatically not representative of the real world. Vast majority of programmers I’ve met or worked with just did their jobs and go home while paying very little attention to trends, niches, or programming communities.
Typescript, both front and back end with SvelteKit. There are silly foot guns in JavaScript and I wish the language was designed better, but aside from that there’s huge benefit to doing everything in one language and not having to context switch. My validation logic and data types are identical across front and back end, that’s hard to beat for me. I’m building a traditional business ERP and Node is plenty fast for that.
1. I'm currently using Scala and Java. I am pretty new to Scala and I haven't really used it or worked with that language but have to learn it since our product is built using Scala
Java and Javascript. By Javascript, I mean in the browser and NodeJS. I am trying to get approval to switch to Deno. They are willing to use Rust 'someday', but so far we aren't.
I get the "opportunity" to be a shitty developer in multiple languages all at the same time - Python, Scala, Angular, and Java, to name a few main ones.
All these people naming just one language (or even 2) are making me jealous. I'd probably be less shitty if I got to focus.