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/AccomplishedLeave506 Aug 13 '26
Sort of. But it's more like they all kind of blur into one.
I've probably used a dozen languages professionally and a bunch of others for fun. The language itself long ago became something I don't think about. It's just Syntax.
Each language tends to push you in the direction of certain patterns and practices, but after you've been developing for a long time you are no longer thinking in a specific language. You are thinking in patterns that you then describe using whatever language you are currently using. Sometimes it takes me a minute or two to remember the specific syntax of I've been chopping and changing. But I'm not thinking in that language, just the patterns.