If I Were Starting Over as a Web Developer, How Would I Do It? (Part 2)
If you've been wondering how to get started as a web developer, but were unsure how to do so, in this episode of the podcast, I'm continuing to step through how I'd get started if I were starting over. In this episode, I'm talking about how to pick the right software language and tech stack for your web development journey, before you dive in and commit to mastering them.
To help you do that, I'm asking questions such as:
To help you do that, I'm asking questions such as:
- Which languages do you enjoy using?
- How big are the communities around each language?
- What is the language's available tooling like (e.g., Composer for PHP, Maven and Gradle for Java, Cargo for Rust, etc)?
- What job openings are available?
Here's the quote from the show: "There are only two kinds of programming languages. Those people always complain about and those people never use".
Links from the episode
- Seek
- Indeed: Job Search
- TIOBE Index for July 2026
- PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language
- 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey (Technology)
- The Top Programming Languages 2025 (IEEE Spectrum)
Want to grow your knowledge further?
Check out the books below, where you can grow your web development skills in a very focused, very hands-on way.
Check out the books below, where you can grow your web development skills in a very focused, very hands-on way.
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