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by cgmorton 5149 days ago
Not to be glib, but has this guy never heard of IRC? First thing I do if I'm learning a new language is join the IRC channel. Frankly, there are smarter people in there than you're likely to find at a local meetup.

It sounds more like the OP's problem was more along the lines of 'didn't have any coder friends', which is a much less universal problem.