It’s been a while since I picked up a new language, but I remember the last time I did, the hardest part was just figuring out how to do trivial things. It’s crazy how long it took me to figure out how to do a simple thing like split a string into fields by a delimiter. I can literally paste a line of code into ChatGTP and say “convert this Python line into JavaScript” and it’ll just do it. Fantastic.
Or yeah, I could spend five minutes reading the man page to remind myself of strptime’s date format every time I need to format a date. Orrrrrr I can just ask the bot something like How do I format this date to look like “YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS” in python? Wed Oct 25 05:37:04 PDT 2023.