• bitsplease@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Tbf, “learned a language” is a hard thing to pin down in any case.

    I’ve been building enterprise software with python for almost a decade now. I still occasionally find stuff in the stdlibs that I didn’t know about, or even sometimes some subtle feature of the language that I never had reason to explore until now.

    If someone asks me if I “learned” python, id say hell yeah - but there’s always still plenty to learn

    That being said, no reasonable definition of learned includes what you could do in 2 days, even as an experienced dev lol

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. I’m 20 years in and I’m still like “I had no idea this was a feature… cool!”

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        1 year ago

        “cool”: that sinking feeling that there’s so much you could go back and optimize, but that you probably will never have the time to…