Learning new and weird things builds brain elasticity and vocabulary for you to express new ideas. I always recommend people to learn FORTH, or Lisp, or APL. Learn to think with different paradigms.
As an extracurricular activity sure, but if your resume just has FORTH on it recruiters are going to throw it in the garbage because there's no evidence you can work in a modern development environment
As an extracurricular activity sure, but if your resume just has FORTH on it recruiters are going to throw it in the garbage because there's no evidence you can work in a modern development environment