alt Hacker NewsMany times this. I'm always skeptical if people saying they know 5+ programming languages beyond surface level.
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pjmlp • last Sunday at 9:10 PM
When you work in enterprise consulting, it suffices to know a language good enough to deliver.
It is common practice to be thrown at random projects regardless of the programming project.
What is valued is the soft skills, and the ability to swim when thrown into the cold water, no matter how.
Yes it kind of sucks, however the Pandora box is long open and only an implosion of the capitalist enterprise culture would fix it.
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A lot of language concepts are shared and abstract. It’s not hard to know many languages proficiently.
I do agree a lot of people over estimate how much they know, but I work with multiple people who know at least 5 languages well.
For me myself, only counting things I’ve shipped at scale, I’d know C, C++, Swift, JavaScript, Python, Rust, MSL, HLSL, GLSL, MEL. There’s enough in common between them that I think it’s quite doable.