Speed is not always important especially when the difference is negligible in some cases. Many companies have their backend written entirely in python. Its simplicity is why it's the most popular language.
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Speed is important when you're handling backend infrastructure for a large volume of people; I mentioned the simplicity portion in the post. It's designed chiefly for automation of common activities or for use in "data-science" fields which often have the unlearned and mentally disabled
What it was designed for is irrelevant. You're underestimating how important the fact that it makes development times faster. It is also the best language for DSA type interviews which is becoming the standard nowadays so I'm not sure why you wouldn't learn it.
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I have used chatGPT and github co-pilot and the best they can do is generate boilerplate when you are starting a project. Humans are needed to understand complex system and build features that integrate well with the rest of the system.
Don't leave python behind, there are many companies that have built their entire backend infra in it (Youview, instagram, octopus energy). Speed in needed in trading systems and games but the most important aspect of a software is maintainability.
C# is good and I if I were you I would also learn JavaScript as a lot of companies try to hire full-stack developer that can write both the backend (node.js) and frontend.
When I was in university, I studied Java, R, Python but as a professional I worked with Python, Go and JavaScript. The choice of programming language is irrelevant as you should be able to pick up new ones if you have already mastered just one.
Software engineering as a profession has decades left before it is even remotely possible to replace devs
I have used chatGPT and github co-pilot and the best they can do is generate boilerplate when you are starting a project. Humans are needed to understand complex system and build features that integrate well with the rest of the system.
Don't leave python behind, there are many companies that have built their entire backend infra in it (Youview, instagram, octopus energy). Speed in needed in trading systems and games but the most important aspect of a software is maintainability.
C# is good and I if I were you I would also learn JavaScript as a lot of companies try to hire full-stack developer that can write both the backend (node.js) and frontend.
When I was in university, I studied Java, R, Python but as a professional I worked with Python, Go and JavaScript. The choice of programming language is irrelevant as you should be able to pick up new ones if you have already mastered just one.
Software engineering as a profession has decades left before it is even remotely possible to replace devs
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I'm not saying that it's not useful to experiment with/learn, I myself have written things in it; I'm saying that it's an inferior language in the realms you mentioned (outside of writing for interviews, which is a form of prototyping which I forgot to mention prior) written to make things easily writable at the cost of performance with no added benefit of readability. The main caveat like I recall saying prior is fast development times at the cost of making a shoddy, slow product in the end
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Performance is not everything, I think that's what you need to realize. Yes I can code my project in C++ and it will probably be faster, but if I don't care about speed why am I going to waste my time when I can simply just use python? We will just agree to disagree, but there are many amazing things that have been built with python. It is not as useless as you think it is.
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I believe that this is the type of ethic that leads to the current age of "import Electron, lol" and "just call in 30 libraries and two-frameworks for your website bro" that we're in today, If you want your web backend to be tens of times slower than something like V8 (Node) with only slightly less work, or for your desktop application to be potentially hundreds of times slower than something like Rust or C++ with a pitiful amount of work spared: then go ahead.
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Everyone should be forced to start out with C
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Think of it like a sculpter studying the work of the old greats or a painter recreating the paintings of old in order to understand the methods behind themMany of the older crowd share the same sentiment
What project have you built in it
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I'm looking into C now, what sites and books do you recomend
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