Charles Fourdrignier

To speedrun your coding journey, learn the following programming languages in this specific order: 1. Kotlin 2. Clojure 3. Rust 4. OCaml 5. Haskell 6. Prolog To elaborate: 1. Kotlin is great to start because it's relatively easy to start. You have a nice IDE with a debugger, lots of resources and courses. And you might even stop here if you want to develop for mobiles. It's a nice language with C-like syntax and garbage collect, so you have to worry less. 2. Clojure still uses JVM and has nice IDE support, so it's easier to move from a JVM language to this one. Clojure (being a Lisp-like language) gives a completely different perspective on coding, as well as dynamic typing. 3. Rust is the first language that doesn't have a garbage collector. But if you're familiar with diverse languages such as Kotlin and Clojure, you shouldn't be too scared by manual memory management and borrow checker. Besides, learning resources are great. 4. OCaml offers a completely different perspective, being a statically typed FP language from an ML family. It gives you another perspective on programming with the taste of native FP via ADTs, HOFs, a Hindley-Milner type system and many other goodies. 5. Haskell teaches you the concept of pure functional programming, moving your understanding even further. After Haskell, you'll have no choice but to understand monads. 6. Prolog teaches you the paradigm of logical programming, and it can be really powerful in understanding diverse programming concepts. --- After all, everyone's journey is unique. And there's not one-size-fits-all answer. Something else might work significantly better for you. But I think that it's crucial to have an exposure to diverse ideas. Besides, it'll teach you to learn PLs extremely fast. After this list, learning Python, Java, C#, or Scala is a matter of reading a language spec for one evening.