[tonyarkles]

> Once you are a generalist you can build any side project you can think of without any external help.

I agree wholeheartedly. Maybe it's because my grandfather was a farmer and I learned a lot from him, but from a very young age it's always been "what do I need to learn to be able to do this?" instead of "who can I find who knows how to do this?"

> almost all of the software development landscape

Embedded would like to have a word with you :)

I do agree with you though, at this point that is a pretty good set of 3 languages that cover a lot of breadth for application (web/mobile/desktop) development.