Lex Fridman: uncertainty

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…It largely kind of aligns with the world you’d expect, but Assembly, why is Assembly more popular than Ruby? Who’s writing just Assembly by… No one writes Assembly by hand other than maybe that one guy that’s developing TLS 1.3 and hand rolling a cryptography algorithm to be the fastest possible algorithm. Yeah. Assembly is a weird one. Maybe people write it maybe in school, but even in school now for a operating systems course or something like that, or system engineering. I don’t know if they write Assembly anymore. I don’t think so anyway. And Swift and Ruby being less popular than Assembly seems ridiculous. But nonetheless, okay, so you get my ideas behind that, but as far as top five languages go, that’s probably too broad because you could just name so many. I think you should probably archetype it by what do you want to do? So if you want to get into game development, perhaps C Sharp, C++ could be good choices. Or JavaScript and doing Canvas games, I could see that also working. But you’re limited by doing JavaScript obviously, because you can’t do as much because the language is just not fast enough to do as much. So it’s like a good thing to remember. If you’re going to be doing backend stuff, if you want a job, if you’re looking for a job, maybe C Sharp slash Java, or JavaScript, or Go would be great choices. If you’re looking to do embedded, you probably want to do C, C++, like that would probably be a good choice. And so I think you have to first determine what do you really want to get out.…

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