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@typhlosion How is #rustlang these days? I've been curious to give it a nose sometime, but I've been buried too deeply in C++, so it's kinda been on my "I should really check this out someday" list for years now. >.>

@gravecat i loooove it ;w;

it's got a little bit of a learning curve to it, especially with lifetime stuff and the borrow checker, but it's so worth it imo

@typhlosion Then I shall have to give it a poke sometime. :3 Learning curve isn't really a big deal, considering I code in C++ for fun. >.>

@gravecat let me know what you think!

i never got into C++ much; always favored C and also a lot of high-level languages.

@typhlosion Will do! :3 I kinda skipped C entirely, went straight from BASIC/ASM in the 80s to Pascal and QBASIC in the early 90s, to PHP (ugh) and C++ in the... 10s? (is that what we call them?)

So many other languages I wanna learn and tinker with, but there's only so much time in the world~

@gravecat i've dabbled with all kindsa stuff. started with Python when i was 10 or so (in the, uh, 2000s >~>) then switched to Ruby, then back to Python, while learning lots of other languages

my current resume lists Python, Rust, C, C#, MIPS and x86 ASM, Scheme, and Haskell

have also worked with a lot of JS, some Ruby and Java, a smidgen of PHP, and a bunch of weird esolangs

@typhlosion Damn, you've definitely got a lot more modern languages under your belt than me. :3 (Haskell, that's another one I wanna try sometime!) I've dabbled very briefly in Python, Ruby and Perl (since all fill a similar role, I wanted to see which I liked the best), and I regretfully know a little PHP, Java and VB.NET.

Most everything else is obsolete crap (Forth, Pascal, like six variants of BASIC, hazy hazy memories of 6502 assembler...)