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by Mawr 816 days ago
Ridiculous. You must be talking about learning only the syntax of a new language. Truly internalizing how to wield a new language will take months to years.

A dev that switched from language X to Y "in a few days" will just write X using Y syntax. Here's a good example of going from Java to Python: https://youtu.be/wf-BqAjZb8M?t=1327.