I have been thinking of learning some programming recently, but I don’t feel confident enough. Is there any point in beginning with something like Zig or Go, and switching to something more serious later?
I have been thinking of learning some programming recently, but I don’t feel confident enough. Is there any point in beginning with something like Zig or Go, and switching to something more serious later?
Mutation (or not) is a matter of runtime semantics, not surface semantics. Let the compiler figure it out. (Functional-but-in-place c.f. Koka, Roc, Lean4)
Purity and referential transparency make writing correct, zero-maintenance code easy.
Although you can extract a lot of money from your customers if you deliver inscrutible code that needs a lot of maintenance.