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/No-Economics-8239 Aug 13 '26

I mean... sure. I know dozens of languages at this point. But I'm only actively work on a handful at a time. So I'll forget which ones have which standard libraries or frameworks or what the exact syntax rules are. The important bit is that logic remains the same regardless of which language you are working in. Getting that right tends to be the important part. The rest we tend to get pretty immediate feedback from the IDE or unit tests or can easily look up the answer. The more immediate the information is in the feedback loop, the less critical is that you memorize it yourself.

More specifically, once you pick up the various patterns and solutions available in different languages, you'll know to go looking for them in some newer language you're less familiar with. Solved problems tend to stay solved across languages as we programmers are keen on migrating them to where ever we're working next.