Ask HN: Language After Python and C?
9 points by greenfield101 4 days ago
For someone in the DS/ML sphere is there anything beyond Python and C/C++ (and SQL ofc) that would be valuable to learn?
9 points by greenfield101 4 days ago
For someone in the DS/ML sphere is there anything beyond Python and C/C++ (and SQL ofc) that would be valuable to learn?
Elixir (https://elixir-lang.org) and its Nx stack (https://github.com/elixir-nx), maybe ?
Rust is the trendy language.
Otherwise learn the Bootstrappable Builds stack from the bottom up; commented hex of machine code, that with short labels and offsets, that with long labels and label addressing, simple assembly, a subset of C, larger subset of C including a preprocessor, various larger C subsets, make, sed, parser generators, bash and so on.
https://bootstrappable.org/ https://lwn.net/Articles/983340/ https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/part...
Do you feel comfortable with array based programming and using tensors? Even though it’s still python, really understanding numpy and torch, are basically learning new programming paradigms. And very relevant to DS/ML
If you really want to learn another language specifically instead of something else, then getting well acquainted with bash and awk wouldn’t be wasted effort.