Thread 106274095

would many anons be better off learning bash scripting or something instead of learning to code? i feel like there's more useful skills that would be applicable to the average persons uh.. computing life.. than learning python or something

>>106274095 (OP)
if you use linux or macos you should get good at bash, zsh, whatever. it's useful.
> python
that's easy. i'm trying to learn how to program assembly language for an ancient sega megadrive, and the way registers need to be programmed makes me want to neck myself.

>learning python
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>>106274095 (OP)
learn Ruby

>>106274095 (OP)
>i feel like there's more useful skills that would be applicable to the average persons uh.. computing life
You might not like this, but Javascript is by far the most useful language for a normie to learn.

It fuels web shit obviously, so most normies have access to a runtime environment that they interact with regularly. But in addition to web shit, Javascript is jammed into just about anything that needs a general purpose scripting language exposed to users. Google Workspace, Postman, etc. Normies will rarely be building anything from scratch, and will instead be scripting something embedded in the applications they are using. And on top of all that, Javascript's dynamic typing and garbage collection make it approachable for normies to fuck around with. It's the perfect normie language.

And if they DO ever want to branch out, JS has non-client-side runtime environments and can even compile to binary executables.

>>106275179
As a filthy no-coder who's into extensions, userscripts and bookmarklets, I'm glad to hear this.