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Discussion on: Should you learn more than one language at the same time?

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Carlos Mestre

Well, it depend on you, and more likely on your stage.

When I was learning to code, it would have been disastrous to try to take on more than one language. Is not just because learning a new language can be hard, but because in these stages I was also learning patterns, structures models. I'd even had headaches trying to differentiate javascript from jQuery.

After few years in different positions and technologies, I hasn't been uncommon taking projects with a completely new stack (for me) of technologies and/or IDEs, and tough it always supposed a couple weeks of adaptation, I went trough it more or less transparently.