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I definitely feel like each programming language I've learned contributed uniquely to my mindset as a hacker. And even ones that didn't really contribute to my thinking, opened up new doors. For example, C opened up open source (as a kind of lingua franca), JS opened up the browser, Hoon opened up Urbit, etc.

The most fun I've had coding was in SQL, making it do algorithms. It's actually surprisingly well-suited.

I also really enjoyed learning x86 assembly.

More important than languages are ecosystems, communities, and technological traditions. Like Unix. Becoming a Unix hacker, or an Urbit hacker, or playing CTFs, you kind of learn a whole little computational ethos that you carry with you forever. The programming language fits into that bigger picture.