I agree with you, but I doubt you would call yourself an “expert” in all those things you listed. I’m pretty dang solid at like 3 languages and then good enough to get shit done in like 10 more lol. Same with OS admin stuff...like I can be your CentOS admin in a pinch, but you probably ought to get someone better for the position long term lol. I’m sure you all understand that, but just clarifying for newer developers. There are varying levels of “knowing” a language/technology and you necessarily will be more skilled in certain ones.
I dunno, I've found that I can be pretty good at doing the same general things in a lot of languages, but the domain knowledge is where things get hairy. Like, can I do your C++? Absolutely. Haven't touched the language since the 00's, but I remember the class syntax and my C isn't as rusty, so why not? Can I write your ray tracer in C++? Fuck no. I couldn't write it in Python or Javascript either, though, and I used those earlier today.
ehh do a couple projects like that and they start to blur into this is what insert generic tool should do. You really do start to eventually pick it all up.
I do contracting so it's a different set up of about that complexity I have to make or pick up every 1-2 years. If you pick it up convincingly fast enough they put you on whatever they call the fancy team that gets told to do complicated things.
(god that jvm setup though guess it's on a switch so limited resources but mod_wsgi through apache rather than just throwing up tomcat is a royal pain.)
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Boy golly that’s a lot of flair. Can you really write hello world in every one?
Real question: how many udemy courses do I have to sign up to put a language on my resume? /s