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by Osiris 2225 days ago
Programming languages are just a means to an end. I've used various language over the years and what I remember is what I built, not whether the language had pattern matching or not.

I have fond memories of writing PHP because it helped build a site to share messages with my family before Facebook. I remember VB.net because I tried to write a game in college. I remember C# because I built a laptop battery meter that I still sell 10 years later. I remember learning JS with node.js because I wrote a log aggregator.

Let's stop focusing on the how we get there and celebrate what we build.