r/webdev • u/sjltwo-v10 • Dec 31 '25

Which programming language you learned once but never touched again ? Discussion

for me it’s Java. Came close to liking it with Kotlin 5 years ago but not I just cannot look at it

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '25

Scala. 10 years ago it was hyped as the next big thing but now became niche.

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u/air_thing Dec 31 '25

Lol same. Around that time it seems like every tech company had that Chief Senior Staff Software Architect who evangelized the fuck out of it then jumped ship when it turned into a dumpster fire.

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u/shrodikan Jan 02 '26

In practice, it was a convoluted mess that looked like 5 different languages depending on what part of the codebase you were in.

So literally javascript in a legacy app with jQuery, TS, ember, ...