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Muhammed Maher

I started with Visual Basic 6.0, then I decided that I want to be a web developer, so I learned HTML, then JS, then CSS, and PHP.

Today, I mostly code in JS and PHP, and if you squeeze my arm I write Python and Golang.

What did I learn from all of that? Well, the language itself doesn't really matter.

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Seth Corker

That an interesting journey!

What did I learn from all of that? Well, the language itself doesn't really matter.

I think this is becoming more and more true, in the past it was much more difficult because languages were more closely tied to the platforms you wanted to support. With languages like JS transcending the web, it's more true than ever.

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richardpaulhall

And JS is a horrible language.

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Seth Corker

That may be but it's had an undeniable impact on the web.