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I am a Python boi and try to stay close to major developments in the language and ecosystem (e.g. asyncio, Pandas 2.0, Pydantic 2.0).

I would like to learn a strongly typed language but the Rust learning curve is scary… and the recent Rust Foundation drama is a huge turn off.

What should I learn, even if I stick to writing mostly Python? Go? Zig? OCaml/Haskell/Elixir? Just learn Rust?

I do mostly ETL pipelines and other data processing, but also interested in systems, networking, general backend stuff.

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armstrys 2y ago

Have you been following mojo? It’s a bit of a gamble since it’s just now in development, but is probably worth a look.

I’m learning rust right now and it’s definitely challenging - hoping one day mojo/python will be widely used.

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MF_HODL 2y ago

Definitely following Mojo, yes. Should be easy to pick up as a Python dev, if it ever truly ships and catches on.

I’m sort of interested in trying something completely different, if only to learn how to think about problems differently.

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armstrys 2y ago

I am liking that about rust. Having to think about strict typing and data ownership/lifetime and how to efficiently organize code around that is hopefully going to make me a better programmer. Lots of bad habits I picked up learning python through the ease of Jupyter notebooks.

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MF_HODL 2y ago

I love Jupyter - use it all the time for prototyping and ad hoc data stuff. But in the last ~2 years, I’d like to think I learned how to write actual robust codebases in Python as well.

I think I am leaning towards Go, Rust, or Zig in that order. Go mainly because I gather it’s extremely fast to learn compared to Rust. Zig is obviously more obscure, but I really like what I’ve seen.

I have a week off from work coming up and will start on one of these!