[nicwest]

I found that learning and writing some Clojure and Go made me think better about the code I was writing in my main language (python).

I enjoyed working through Clojure for the brave and true: https://www.braveclojure.com/clojure-for-the-brave-and-true/

and the go tour is probably the best introduction I've ever had to a language: https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1

[jcheng]

I can imagine the impact Clojure had; learning about Lisp had a big impact on my programming journey.

What was it about Go that made your Python code better, though?

[nicwest]

Go helped me learn about designing good interfaces, and how to write tests using dependency injection rather than just patching stuff out.

[nathanyz]

This is my recommendation as well, although since you mentioned it, I would throw in SICP as well,

You can work through SICP to help learn Clojure/LISP at the fundamentals level, and then expand out to more practical use cases with the recommendations above.

[christophilus]

I came here to suggest these two languages, too. On the other hand, you could focus on building something non-web. A language, a video game, etc.

[thatcodingdude]

That's a good idea. It'd probably be great for me to start a non web-app side-project.

[cornedor]

Because the syntax alone is already so different it was a great way for me to "re-learn" programming. Even for the very short while I played with it, it really thought me to look further than the default go-to patterns I used to use.