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by cratermoon 216 days ago
Tooling is important. How hard is it to install, set up a project, and get working something more complex than "hello world"?

Are there good libraries, either inherent to the language or in quality libraries, for something I'm interested and competent with. It's hard to both learn a new language and a new programming domain. For example, I know very little about circuit design and have little interest in it, so I'm not going to learn Verilog.

If there aren't good libraries, is there at least enough capability that I could reasonably build my own library in an area I can apply my expertise?