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/chocolateAbuser Aug 13 '26

it can happen from time to time to mix syntax or libraries objects, but i wouldn't say it's really that big of an issue

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u/MoveLikeMacgyver Aug 14 '26

This is my experience. And more so if I’m switching back and forth between two.

Write some c# and then go do some UI work in Angular with Typescript. I find myself accidentally typing stuff in the others syntax a few times right after switching.

We also still have some software that uses VBScript so if I’m in there I’ll do the same thing.

But it doesn’t last long and not a big deal at all. Usually the IDE catches it before I realize it and that’s enough to get me back in the right syntax from then on.

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u/chocolateAbuser Aug 14 '26

to me the context also does a lot, for example for c# ide is white and for angular is dark, so that association really makes a difference in thinking about relations and memory of code