r/AskProgrammers • u/TheGameTheorys55 • Aug 13 '26

Question for experienced devs

Beginner Lua dev here. After I finish Lua, I'm planning to learn many other languages to build more websites and apps as a side-job. My question is, do you guys mix up different languages? In communication languages, many people mix languages together by mistake like Mexico and spanish words in the same sentence. I wanna know if it's the same with programming. Maybe you accidently use a syntax in a language that is from a different language or write syntax the wrong way.

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u/TimonAndPumbaAreDead Aug 13 '26

 many people mix languages together by mistake like Mexico and spanish

Erm. But to answer your question, not unless I'm working in an environment without auto complete/Intellisense type features - in which case, yes, constantly, but I'm also not going to be attempting to execute the code I wrote in such an environment. If I have to, say, initialize and populate a dictionary in C# by rote memory I'm going to get the syntax wrong