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Discussion on: I've noticed my skills are very limited in every language I know

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João Veiga

“A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.”

I've found in my career that it's better to have a basic to higher basic of some languages that I don't work with. By learning some Haskell, Erlang, Elixir or OCaml, I've found patterns and ideas that have helped me grow when writing code.

Now, I don't know at which stage of your journey you are but unless you are required to know more about language X or Y, you shouldn't fret too much about it. I find that most of the time, I'm using a small part of the language, and it's ok, we're not always doing completely new projects or parts of code. What I have found that is helpful is to watch people from streams or read books on patterns for the languages that I work with or am trying to work with.