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I have always dabbled with programming languages, even as a kid. But I never made anything with them until I was in my 20s. Most extensive things I did before my 20s was simple modifications to some files or dumb tiny javascript files.
The thing is, people always told me programming is very difficult (which is true!) and I am the kind of person that always downplays their abilites. So I wanted to make programs and games, but I never wanted to do the actual programming because how people treated it. I always looked for non-programming game engines and such.
I was scared of breaking my PC, or just general failure. The latter is of course a personal problem, but I wish people had told me that it's not as scary as I thought. Failure is big part of programming, that's how most of us learn.
Well, eventually I had to overcome my fears: Our class at college had nobody who could do programming, so I decided it's time to try at least.. And I got hooked.
I eventually realised it's not that scary and that my mind *can* wrap around these mystical words I am typing to make things happen. C# was my entry to programming, it was the language that got me hooked. Python also made me happy.
I was told to not use C unless I "know what I'm doing." It's valid advice, but also it was more of this "ooo scary spooky language" thing that made me just ignore it and keep working with higher level languages.
I wish that instead I would've been told "It's old and weird, but it can be very very useful language to know and work with." And nowadays, especially with libraries like Raylib, it's pretty simple to get going and start making a game. Difficult for sure. But never scary.
Making my Raylib FPS in pure C has been one of the most fun programming projects I've had in years!
Same thing happened with C++. People told me it's an awful language to work with, I should never bother with it, yadda yadda. Again, difficult language for sure! Challenging even. But not scary. I finally decided to work making my ESO Addon Manager in C++ and Qt. Sure it's complicated but also there is a challenge, a puzzle, that my mind really enjoys!
What I am trying to point here is that..
You're free to have opinions, even scathing ones, of languages. I know I have those about Javascript. But your dislike may be someones like, which they never get to realise because you scared them away. Let people try. Let people fail!
I found out about my likes way later because I was spooked away. I would've never learned how much I actually enjoy writing C if I just hadn't taken the plunge. I went in with complete "oh god is this going to suck" and I am glad to say, it hasn't sucked at all.
The challenges both C and C++ have given me are great. I learned that I enjoy lower level programming, despite it's weird own world where the computer doesn't help you out of sticky situations! (Like memory handling)
I am no more scared! I am excited! I just wish I had realised this when I was 15. And that's why I'm ranting about this.
PS. this is a bit incoherent ramble probably because it's late and I just wanted to get this out of my system lol
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