Comments by "raianmr" (@raianmr2843) on "Aaron Jack" channel.

Something to keep an eye out for: some companies don't really use Rust for their business needs, they just put Rust in the requirements section to attract experienced programmers.
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That depends. C++ is way easier to get started with compared to Rust, but the long-term experience is bumpier to say the least. As Bjarne Stroustrup himself puts it, "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off". Rust solves many, many of the issues C++ programmers have been facing for decades but in doing so it becomes a tool for more experienced programmers. If C++ were created today, I'm sure it would've looked almost identical to Rust. As a C++ programmer migrating to Rust myself, I think you can safely skip C++ and move to Rust unless you want a job in this space asap. You should spend some time with C beforehand though.
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The issue is with dynamic typing, not dynamically typed languages necessarily. Almost every major dynamically typed language has a typed solution these days e.g., Python has gradual type-hinting that anyone can learn within 5 minutes, JS with TS isn't so easy to get started with for beginners but its not that hard to move to TS after having spent a week or two with JS, Typed Clojure, and so on. It's just that there're a LOT of subpar learning materials for these languages on the web that don't follow up and coming industry standards. Typed-ness is an interesting topic; in my experience beginners don't have any issues learning static typing at all, in fact, it's the other around because people already think in terms of types. It seems to me that all the people still in dynamic land just learn to think that way because that's the way those languages are designed. Some languages though, have good, technical reasons to be dynamic by default e.g., Clojure and Elixir.
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Only worthwhile if you have a really, really good and experienced C programmer to mentor you. Not even online resources teach decent C. Saying this as someone who started with C.
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Pick a top level field/area that you find interesting and then find the technologies you might need to work with in that area. No need to focus on everything everywhere all at once. But as a rule, you might want to get exposed to Python and JS because basically everyone needs those languages at some point. If you don't need a job asap and want to grow as a programmer, I would suggest that you take this route: Python with type-hinting -> JS for 1 week and then move to TS -> Go or Kotlin, focus on concurrency -> C for 1 week and then move to Rust -> (bonus langs) Clojure and Haskell.
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This is a complicated topic. Python, for example, is more complex than JS in terms of language features and standard library, but the beginner experience for Python is miles ahead because of many reasons like, the JS bloom being a relatively new thing, JS having permanent language bugs that cannot be fixed for backwards compatibility reasons and so on. That said, you can't go wrong with either of those two. After you've learned these two, you might want to pick up something like Go or Kotlin.
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What are your top languages?
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Rust is definitely a competitor to C++ for new projects. Rust doesn't need to be object-oriented because it already has all the fruits of OOP without the associated costs. The entire industry is detoxing from OOP now. Go, Rust, Julia, all have better primitives for encapsulation, polymorphism, and sharing implementation compared to most OO languages. If you have any doubts you can look them up yourself.
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Most people without college degrees aren't interested/ don't feel comfortable with SQL and relational databases in general. Not saying this as a jab at them, this is just how things are.
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Gamedev isn't ~50% of all programming jobs based on any notable surveys or studies. Other than that, the only reason C# became the lingua franca of gamedev is Unity. If something happens to Unity it's pretty much given that C# will take a major hit.
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That's the ideal case. But not everyone has the time nor the focus.
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@flaykaz If you're just starting out don't go with Flutter and Dart. Those technologies aren't general purpose and you're going to have a hard time branching out if need be. Tons of beginner level resources out there for Kotlin so you don't have anything to worry about. Android dev also happens to be far safer and more stable compared to webdev. Best of luck.
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This is true mostly for JS (and frontend to be specific). Vanilla HTML, CSS, JS aren't half-decent for writing modern, complex UIs in, so people ended up developing sub-languages over these three. That's why JSX is so different compared to normal JS and so on. So it's better to do a separate video exclusively for frontend JS frameworks instead.
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Probably some esoteric language made specifically for that purpose. In terms of mainstream languages, I'd say C. When C came out people didn't work on the huge, multi-programmer codebases we see today. C has minimum support for code organization, absolutely no form of polymorphism resulting in duplicated and macro-heavy code everywhere, unsafe language constructs that basically let you bypass the type system and do whatever you want to do, poorly designed syntax that can result in some truly unreadable code, bad error messages and so on. That said, it's generally good to have spent some time with the language because of it's influence and closeness to the hardware.
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Look up Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. You can read it for free on the web. Python is more general purpose than JS, so you should have plenty of options to choose from after that. That said, I know this is probably a demotivating thing to say but if you don't have a CS degree, it's generally easier to get into the industry through webdev, that's why it's so popular. If you come from a business background, there are plenty of data science-y jobs out there though. In either case, knowing Python will be of much help to you. Best of luck and hope for the best.
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@j.vosier6786 That's a complicated topic. I've been programming in Python for about 4 years and learn new things all the time. I'm sure people from other languages have similar things to say.
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Wish I could get over Dart's archaic syntax and semantics. Can't go back to that style of programming after having been exposed to Go and Rust.
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Try Go and Rust, both of these were created by bored C and C++ programmers respectively.
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Move onto TS after a week or two. Also check out functional programming in JS.
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There are far, far more important things to consider than Hollywood-induced mass hysteria about AI. Frequent mass layoffs, startups that burn investor money without actually making a profit, lack of unions, dealing with non-technical executives on a daily basis, weeks long overworked underpaid work crunches, having to spend entire extra workdays just dealing with people and participating in meetings, the current tech boom stabilizing and in turn worker demand fluctuating, literally getting diabetes from coding all day long and so on and so on. Think about those things first and then come to AI land.
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This is a list for only general purpose programming languages.
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Python is an universal glue language. Even languages like Rust depend on it for scripting purposes. So, this is basically false equivalency, learn both if you have the time.
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This boom has been in action for the last decade for two main reasons: 1) NodeJS did wonders for JavaScript tooling, and 2) Microsoft stopped being a bottleneck for the ECMAScript standard.
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Try to look at median salaries instead of average. Averaging isn't really a good indicator of the average case, ironically. Median stats are better because they aren't influenced by exceptional cases like experienced programmers and so on.
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