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Part of the problem is that there are too many things each language can now do. Every single language wants feature parity with every other language. Every single language wants to do everything.

This means, an expert in one language is going to be "Beginner" instead of "Early" in some some ways...but "Early" instead of "Beginner" in other ways.

Anecdotally, as a software engineer working with C++, I had to spend a whole months trying to understand event-driven programming of other languages. I didn't really need tutorials on loops and recursions but I sure as hell needed to understand how a typical program in that language works.




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