[vivainio]

For something fun yet with that elusive 'real programming' edge, play around with Rust.

[jon-wood]

I love that your response to someone saying they lost their confidence in the pursuit of new technology for its own sake is to recommend a new technology to learn.

[EugeneOZ]

Rust can be used for web programming, when it's a very "real programmers" language, so they response is perfectly valid.