Ask HN: Need advice on my next direction

1 pointsby vesche12 lat temu2 comments

Let's just say I've recently come into a lot of free time. I really want to get down to some intense programming, and my goal is to learn a new language and contribute to an open source project. My background is in Python and Java, and I have little experience with anything else.

My question for all of you is what language? And some potential open source projects that you find interesting and need more contributors. I've been thinking about Go or C++, but throw whatever you think at me.

2 comments

a3n12 lat temu

C might be good, because it's C, and also because of your background in Python. Python is built on C, and extensions are built on C.

C.

swartkrans12 lat temu

You might also want to consider Scala. There are lots of open source projects to help out with anyway.