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Discussion on: How many programming languages do you know?

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Donald Sebastian Leung

According to my Codewars profile, I have completed at least 1 code challenge in 43 different programming languages. However, I've probably completely forgotten some 30+ of them by now and for the (approximately) dozen remaining languages, I've probably never touched any frameworks in maybe 10 those languages so I have no idea how to use them in production. The only languages I dare say I know right now (as in, I can probably use it to develop a real-world project to some degree) are: Node.js, Python, maybe a little bit of C and Java.

Though in today's world, it simply isn't enough to know a programming language, or even multiple programming languages and frameworks for that matter - you also have to know how to effectively perform version control, write unit tests, deploy to all sorts of environments, etc., to stand out from the crowd.