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Ask HN: How to keep your skills up to date on all your programming languages?

by shanwang on 11/16/16, 12:14 PM with 4 comments

For multilingual programmers, assume your day job only let you program in 1-2 languages, how do you keep your skills up to date for all the languages you are able to program professionally?
  • by edburdo on 11/16/16, 12:59 PM

    Why do you need to keep current on multiple languages? Is it to keep you still marketable so you can leave? Or just a bragging right for yourself?

    Why not specialize in one or two languages... become a leader and specialist and not a generalist.

  • by dozzie on 11/16/16, 12:36 PM

    Why do you assume a polyglot would work in a setting that disallows use of other languages?