Conversely, should you learn to drive in a lamborghini?
Tools matter as a result of what you want out of them. In this case learning to drive. They honestly don't have that much value themselves. A guy who learns to drive on a Lada can drive a Mercedes too.
The same is true for programming languages, even though we love to pretend it isn't
> A guy who learns to drive on a Lada can drive a Mercedes too.
Let's continue this analogy until we swerve off the road.
Someone who learns to drive automatic is going to have a much harder time when they switch to driving a stick-shift, vs. vice versa.
Someone who learns to drive above the Arctic circle in the summer may run into trouble because they never learned how headlights, fog lights and brights work.
Tools matter as a result of what you want out of them. In this case learning to drive. They honestly don't have that much value themselves. A guy who learns to drive on a Lada can drive a Mercedes too.
The same is true for programming languages, even though we love to pretend it isn't