I’ve decided that I’m getting an associate’s degree in programming, because maybe in 2 years there will be tech jobs again and maybe the corpos will fucking take me seriously for once if I have a degree

unfortunately this means that I have to learn Java and C++ - two languages that I want absolutely nothing to do with

@kasdeya let us know if you run into trouble, we've got enough experience with both of those to help troubleshoot

@tempest aw thank you! I might need that tbh - I feel like C++ especially is going to be very very unintuitive for me, so I could probably use the help

@kasdeya i'd also be happy to advise :) i have a lot of experience with java, and can dissect a reasonable amount of c++ (the language scares me too much)

@liese aw omg thank you! I’d definitely appreciate that - both Java and C++ scare me lol

@kasdeya Can I ask which coding langs you prefer?

@amca the one that I’m able to get the most done in is definitely Python, but I think Lua, Janet, and Fennel are all much more beautiful languages - especially Janet. I’m also comfortable using JavaScript or TypeScript though! but I tend to find compiled languages extremely limiting and their limitations feel arbitrary to me. it feels like I have to go out of my way to adapt my code to the language

also, I noticed that you mentioned FORTH in your pinned post and I’ve had a lot of fun playing with FORTH too! I was never able to write code that was especially practical for anything lol but I had a lot of fun doing math expressions of various kinds and playing with DUP, DROP, SWAP, ROT, etc.

@kasdeya I'm curious if you had looked at Hy, so you can code in a lisp that compiles to Python's AST?

@amca I saw that language and it seems interesting! I haven’t looked into it much at all because right now I’m interested in learning a Lisp that’s a standalone language, but I’m honestly kinda curious about Hy - the impression I get is that it’s probably going to be like Fennel except for Python instead of Lua, which might be pretty nice