Switching lanes as a developer
I’ve chosen my study called technical informatics education for a deeper knowledge of computers. After i’ve successfully got my Bachelor degree I’ve worked for a middle sized company and short thereafter I’ve worked for a IT -consultancy company in the Netherlands. During my study I’ve encountered and learned a lot of languages like for example: Assembly, C/C++, Java and Python. However after i’ve completed my studies I choose to work mainly with Java. But sometimes the thought crosses my mind, what if.. I could switch lane and switch my main language and related ecosystem? Which language am i talking about? C/C++, which in my honest opinion is a language which is low-level and has quit some performance. But then I thought of a quote we’ve said to each other at the university: “If you can code within a language, you can do it with any language”. This made me think…