[winny314]

Op here.

I disagree. You can get up and started in most language stacks fairly quickly. Keep focus, learn to sort advice into helpful and unhelpful buckets, and start building with a goal in mind.

For example - I hadn't touched fennel nor Love2d until about a month ago, and we made something happen.

You can do this too.

[jpe90]

I recently learned Fennel and cranked out a Love2D game as well. Not only that, but I discovered it’s trivial to run the game on some spare nintendo consoles I have lying around, because Lua is insanely portable.

In contrast, I spent a ton of time trying to build other lisps that are designed to be embeddable on those consoles and got nowhere.

Fennel rocks. Such a pragmatic and well designed mini-language.

[jonahx]

You can get started quickly, yeah. You can also build some stuff. It might be useful, even.

The article is about what it takes to really know a language. That's a bigger task. It takes months, if you work fast. That's how you write high-quality, maintainable software.

You can do this too.