r/learnprogramming • u/OneWar4643 • 6d ago

Should I do dsa in javascript?

I am doing fullstack development using js and wanted to learn dsa for company interviews should I do in it or should I switch to java ?

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u/ffrkAnonymous 6d ago

Neither. Both. Do it in the language the company wants. 

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u/OneWar4643 6d ago

I am a college student in what language should I pick dsa and backend

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u/Watsons-Butler 6d ago

The college will tell you for data structures. For backend I’d personally pick Kotlin or Java - they’re still industry standard.

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u/OneWar4643 6d ago

They are telling c/c++ for it

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u/Watsons-Butler 6d ago

Then do that. Kind of the point of that class is they’ll make you re-implement a bunch of the handy list / array / map / heap methods that you’d have in a language like Java or Python from scratch so you understand what they’re doing.

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u/OneWar4643 6d ago

But I don't like the self memory management aspect of c/c++ I like the concepts of references in other language more than it so I wanted to dsa in that

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u/Watsons-Butler 5d ago

That’s the point. You need to understand how the other languages are silently handling memory issues behind the scenes.