Thread:Adaneth Mirimë/@comment-25330335-20171030033313/@comment-25330335-20171101210051

Nice! If you're interested, two good languages for playing around with console apps and fancy efficient algorithms are D and Rust. You've probably heard of Rust, and it lives up to basically everything people say about it: fast, easy (ish) to write code in, and completely safe. D is a little less well-known, but it's a great language. It's based on C, with influences from Java and C++ (as in, what would C++ not do...). It's my favorite language, I recommend checking it out!

What does network engineering entail? It sounds interesting.

Linux is a super fun time, if you feel like dealing with the occasional bug/break in your system which have to be fixed or lived with now and again. You could probably get your hands on an old cheapy and get Linux running on that, it's usually enough to get started playing around with.

Also, I much prefer doing development on Linux, the filesystem and a few other things just make more sense to me...

One more question; You're 19 and a Junior in College?