Programming

Ruby because it was the first popular Japanese language. I wrote a few useful scripts and it was nice. Then it was swallowed by Rails, and killed by Python. No one uses it around me but it was fun.

Had to learn Javascript for web development class.

In all seriousness, I found out about Nim from the debug log of a discord bot and decided to give it a shot. It's now my favorite programming language.

I learned a bit of KOBOL after hearing it was the weirdest, hardest, and most unused programming language back in highschool. But only really enough to do a hello world and other very simplistic programs. More because finding resources at that time was difficult.

Perl because a system I worked on was just a bunch of Perl scripts in a trench coat pretending to be a program.

I learned it because the ancient beast kept breaking because it just a bunch of Perl scripts in a trench coat cobbled together over generations.

I was forced to do it during my conscription service to implement an excel merge in VBA because that was the programming installed on the system. Fuck VBA and the integraded VBA Editor in Excel

Python. To write mods for renpy 'games'.

Objects weren't properly saving in a game, so the developer showed me what code I could copy paste to enable objects to save. Much like Thanos, "fine, I'll do it myself".

Because it was the new hotness

Somewhere before 2010, when I was still on Windows on my laptop and using AutoHotkey, I learned a dialect of Basic. To write an application starter on my USB stick, when going to internet cafes. The starters job was just to run my AutoHotkey script with AutoHotkey interpreter. I never used the Basic language again. I actually forgot which dialect, maybe FreeBasic.

Needed to write a syntax highlighter for VB.Net but I couldn't find any weirdly written edge cases online, so I had to make some myself.

Might not be dumb, but I learned programming to create things and learn how things worked. Started with entering in hundreds of lines of BASIC printed in magazines, including debugging font typos.

Then learned MUF, or Multi-User Forth, a stack-based text language for creating text based dungeons, and managed to stop some malicious users spying and people's privacy in the server.

Every so often, I pick up a new language to test it to see if it does cool stuff or help me further learn more about how things function.

Because I couldn't find any dev to help me make the game I wanted to make.

Same as everyone, to produce reports.

I learned Go because I really liked the keyword go