Heyy, I'm learning programming and trying to choose a focus, I saw you can make web/backend w node, desktop (bloatware but discord uses it so if it works it works), games (not AAA and not optimized for performance but it shouldn't matter for indie too much) Is there anything that compares? I wanna focus on one thing instead of spreading myself over a ton of languages, I do feel js is interesting for this, but I'm just starting out, so looking to hear some thoughts of people more familiar with programming.

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[–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

Sort of. I’d say JavaScript is well distributed for sure. Being the only first class browser language and 25 years of R&D from the biggest companies in the world have made JavaScript usable for a lot of things you mention.

Versatility of a programming language is usually inversely related to the size of its standard library. See C vs Python.

So in my opinion languages that are versatile may not be the most productive, so it’s always good to learn new ones and incorporate the ideas they can teach you.

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