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The Art of Adapting to Any Programming Language
Yesterday was exhausting. I had a full-day meeting with a client at my company’s Guadalajara office, the kind of day where your mind races from conversations to problem-solving and back to anecdotes. It was enriching but also tiring in that satisfying way where you know you learned something.
At one point, and this was inevitable, the conversation drifted into a joke that developers have been telling for years: “How often does a new JavaScript framework come out? Every day?” Cue the laughter — yeah, it’s an inside joke, but we developers love to poke fun at ourselves. Just as the laughter was dying down, the client said something that struck me as genius:
“The difference between programming languages isn’t like learning German or Japanese for a Spanish speaker. It’s more like someone from Spain traveling to Mexico or Argentina. The accents, slang, and tone will take some getting used to, but it’s still Spanish, and you’ll understand each other from day one.”
I sat there for a second, and then I thought, WOW. I need to write about this.
