My Blogs

I still remember the exact feeling of sitting down to write my first "real" program and having absolutely no idea which language deserved my time. There's a particular kind of paralysis that hits when you're new to programming and every forum, every YouTube video, and every well-meaning senior seems to be pushing a different answer. For a while, I resisted picking based on hype. It felt important, somehow, that I choose something because it actually fit the way I thought, not because it was what everyone else was learning that semester. And at that moment, the overwhelming answer from almost everyone around me was the same: learn JavaScript. It made sense on paper — it's everywhere. React on the frontend, Node on the backend, a new framework announced seemingly every month, entire career paths built around a single language. So I gave it an honest, sustained attempt. I worked through tutorials, built a couple of small toy projects, tried to convince myself I liked...