God-Tier Developer Roadmap 

You’ve inspired me to finally quit programming and take up farming. Thank you

I like how in one moment we go from actual programming languages to straight up philosophy

For any newbies: if all this seems overwhelming, don't worry. The stress of the work will eventually expose you naturally to deeper layers of programming. After 1-2 years, a lot of things mentioned in this video will become part of your vocabulary. Also, tip as a senior: suffer. Yes, really. Suffer. That's how you get better above everyone else

I learned programming on C and C++ and I got to say they're pretty great to begin with to fundamentally understand the flow of the software and memory menagment. It's like learning to swim by jumping directly in to deep waters. If you learn to code functional, stable apps in those language I think you're ready to go.

I love how I procrastinate programming by watching unrelated programming content

"How do you see yourself in 5 years?" Junior Developer: imagines himself in a landscape full glass smart apartment window view surrounded by tech with a huge desk full of monitors, working with multiple languages and solving complex algorithms Senior: imagines himself in a farm with literally no electronic device in a 5 mile radius

I love how thorough all this is and how well-organized it is.

I just started learning to code… and now I’m overwhelmed. Great video!

Definitely recommending this to my junior colleague so instead of learning programming languages they will question their existence and purpose in life. Thanks 👍

Man, imagine how this guy will react when he finds out that reality is actually programmed in JavaScript

I have always been mildly, passively interested in coding as a hobby, but dude, your videos have hyper-charged my interest! I'm already doing side coding projects at work, but now I want to dive head first into it. Thanks, your video style is inspiring and entertaining!

I was genuinely taken aback by the ending in the best way possible! It completely surprised me, but in a delightful and heartwarming manner.

Me starting programming: "I wish I had started this stuff twenty years ago!" Me watching this video: "I'm glad I waited until I was already a psychonaut."

i love how we got through an entire philosophycal trip before even mentioning Visual Basic, pretty accurate

In my university, the first programming language they teach us is C, followed by C++ and then moving on to assigning us projects (e.g. Artificial Intelligence, if you choose to take this subject later on) requiring knowledge of Python without actually spending time to teach us this language at that point. C is a very good beginner language because, like it was stated in the video, it's the language without which, a lot of the "big" ones in the industry now wouldn't exist. Edit: They also teach us Assembly in the 1st year for the mandatory subject "Computer Architecture I" which as you can imagine is a pain in the ass...

This was hilarious, well done. And yet still informative! I had no idea Rust was the most beloved language.

Personally i like to move individual electrons to perform mathematical equations

Time to add 5 years of experience as a god-tier dev to my resume

You always speak the hard truth, and your channel is damn so straighforward and interesting as always.

To anyone trying to learn programming from the beginning, my best advice is to just pick a language that you like at first glance. Stop stressing over what language you need to start with, because the most important skill of all is to begin to think like a programmer. You will never have as much of a challenge learning a language as you do your first one. And no specific language is going to make it that much easier because you are training your brain to think in a way that is fairly alien to the way most of us go about our day to day lives. But once it *clicks* and you begin to think like a programmer, you can pick up and become functional in another language in a week or sometimes even just a weekend. You just need to first get used to breaking problems down and solving them with basic yes/no questions and then you are on your way

I'm a Senior Principal Software Engineer, programming for 25 years and a fan of many different languages. This is the most accurate overview of languages I've seen without going overboard. There are some notable exceptions like Perl (and pseudo-languages like Regular Expressions) but it also had a few I wasn't aware of, like V and C--. Well done.

Almost 17 minutes of condensed programming language slander and entertainment. I love it.

I certainly did not expect to watch this whole thing. But it just kept going deeper and I couldn't stop.

this was so informative, and also funny af at the same time, thank you! 😄

Having just started learning python, I must say, it’s been fun coming to the realization that even writing 10 lines of a working function from scratch can take like 2 hours if you aren’t a senior coder(or using chat gpt).

I started my career as a nuclear engineer in 2009 working with reactor physics and fuel performance codes written in FORTRAN. I didn't have an IDE either, just notepad and the compiler. My colleague remembered a time when he had to walk to the computer building with his deck of cards and return the next day for the results - good times!

Senior dev with graduate degree in computer engineering here; super great summary. The only issue is that the fractal iceberg needs a mario-style ascending beanstalk that leads to weird worlds such as "Prompt Engineering" and AGI

Incredible resource for learning programming. Really helped me grasp the basics.

I have a philosophy degree and this video is my programming journey in reverse order. I started studying epistemology a over a decade ago and recently discovered Scratch ✌️

After watching this video, I think I will need an extra life to learn skills that will help me lend a junior software developer job. Edit: it's a joke to follow up Jeff's joke guys

This video truly is god-tier. Absolutely amazing and mindblowing.

Quoting Fireship "You wouldn't want to be on your death bed without trying PHP" !!!! hahahahaa. Then the baby riding the cat! Man where do you come up with all of these fun and crazy humour. I always get a good laugh when I come to your videos. It never fails to amuse me. Please carry on doing all of the hard work you do in order to make such awesome videos! Loads of love and support from me!

My experience learning many languages and frameworks has taught me that the specific thing you learned will probably have minimal significance for you, but the process of understanding that tech and the effort you put into it will yield massive benefits.

That went from interesting to funny to really deep in a shockingly short amount of time. 10/10 would question my existence again.

Absolutely love the ending. That's why I'm subscribed.

I like how even though it becomes deeply philosophical and puts me through an existential crisis, I can somehow always find a way to rely on JavaScript to help me out.

"Most production code out there is not functional." True, true.

One of the best classes I ever took in college was "C in the Unix Environment" because it helped me understand compilers better and memory and memory management and sort algorithm efficiencies and whatnot. It made me unafraid to really dig in to using the command line to build and run C and made all the higher level languages easier to use, easier to debug and understand complex errors, and really an overall appreciation for the craft.

Very insightful. Thank you.

This was a wild ride. I've dabbled in programming a few times and recently decided to take a deep dive and go back to college for computer science. I have four five week classes coming up on Python, JavaScript, C++ (which I learned a bit in college 20 years ago), and SQL. Pretty damned excited, honestly. I can't wait to get to a point where I can feel comfortable playing around with some of the more obscure languages.

Liked the Raju Rastogi cameo at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="137">2:17</a>

A few categories to add: 1- formal proofs languages 2- hardware description languages 3- Compiler Intermediates, most notably LLVM IR

Very good job, thank you for your time and effort. The only but I would like to express is about lack of several languages in the bottom part. You didn't mentioned any of hardware languages such as vhdl, verilog or systemC. There are also some others, but those 3 are major

Most rich people stay rich by spending like the poor and investing without no stopping then most poor people stay poor by spending like the rich yet not investing like the rich but impressing them

I started to take C++ seriously in around 2018 or so. It took me 2 or so years to get decent at the language. But honestly, i don’t regret it at all. It’s by far the most powerful language. It might not be the most profitable one, but I’m too deep now to care about money lol

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="98">1:38</a> Popular Dyn High-level <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="140">2:20</a> Specialised Dyn High-level <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="227">3:47</a> Static High-level <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="324">5:24</a> Functional <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="408">6:48</a> Systems <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="501">8:21</a> Nouveau Modern <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="584">9:44</a> Historically Important <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="710">11:50</a> Esoteric <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="879">14:39</a> Lowest Level

Thx for the video. It was real to me! 👍

this has always been my go to video for introducing beginners to the programming world always love this video

Existential questions aside, this is a great way to organize the mountain of coding languages -- especially as a junior developer who kinda wants to try everything new all the time. Maybe the single most helpful video for answering "what language should I learn next?" Thank you!

Basically you can see that it is not an iceberg... But different tools for different purposes, don't get scared by this video, if you like programming do a favor to yourself and keep practicing everyday. I'm a software developer that started from nowhere, after 7 years I'm already living in another country and have a good life. I'm not rich, but I'm happy and have a comfortable life. And I study programming almost everyday. My main language is Python, I've been through C, C++, Lua and Go, but what brought me here was my capability of solving problems, not the languages that I know, for that, there are documentation and courses. Stay hungry...

Nice, I am at work now writing some c# code. And you made me feel overwhelmed and wanting to quit!

Good one… thank you for sharing about programming languages

This is gold. The ending is fantastic. Thanks for making my evening cold bath that much more enjoyable. Hilarious yet informative.

This video restored my hope in RU-vid. Not only was this absurdly informative to this guy who just installed Git, a serious amount of effort and knowledge was required to pack into such a short time. Live long and prosper. 🖖

That, was, the most, informative, entertaining, concise, and brutal <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1001">16:41</a> about coding that I've watched, to date. My brain is smoking. It's really hard NOT to become a bit paralyzed by all this information (staring across the room, blankly, in a silent stroke). 🤯

thanks for the last part there, gotta love the surprise psychological curveball

The first programming language I learned in College was Java, (hated it cause my professor held my hand through the whole thing so when i got into advance level java programming, it was hard and had to relearn it twice) then i learned HTML, CSS, and Java Script. (that was a lot of fun) after that I learned SQL and promptly forgot about it. Then I graduated, Started to learn python on my own, got distracted, and was certified in Ruby. Now I'm learning Stick. as in stick welding.

I love how it start serious and ends with "the universe is the matrix". Absolutely genious. Keep it up!

This is quickly becoming my favorite RU-vid channel.

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="165">2:45</a> I notice how you neither deny nor confirm html is a programming language but dodge the question all together . Hats off to you sir

I was expecting VHDL to be mentioned when talking about the gate/transistor level

This man just curated all those languages and their functionalities just for us. Big up bro!!

I especially like the shout-out to COBOL. I took 2 semesters of it back in the day and I've often thought there would be some serious money programming professionally in it (pun intended as it's used so much in banks).

I never knew this much about languages. Brilliant video. I am learning Python now but I decided my next is definitely assembly or x86

What he says about Cobol is totally correct, it's the reason my university started teaching Cobol again (demand for devs from corporations).

The transition from one language to another was really good. Didn't knew there are so many languages between C++ and asm

I really like your philosophical closing statement ;)

I have no programming knowledge. But this video blew my mind. Thank you.

It's so funny to me that people are always chasing the shiny new language then they get out of school and all of the job listings are looking for COBOL and Java because the old tech companies refuse to update their legacy systems. Anyway this video was a masterpiece, especially that ending. I'm always trying to tell people that meaning isn't inherent in the universe!

Me scrolling through all these comments and seeing 10 different people type "first"

Outstanding piece of art!

I had deep suppressed emotions that were burdening me and this roadmap finaly let me cry and sob them out, thanks.

The bad thing about this video is that you can't erase it from your mind to rewatch like the first time, until Elon Musk launchs that feature with the Neuralink

Honestly I've been thinking really hard about which language to focus on and thanks to this video I've decided to go with free diving

Looking to coding and computer science as a career change. Hardcore pumped. Watched your video. It was great. Anyway, gonna go build timber frame houses.

Very cool video, thank you!

This actually helped me build a context of which path I should take for languages as I favor philosophy quite heavily, this was actually relaxing to grasp another ideal of god mode.

It's just bizzare how you achieve to make such an informative video with hours of content compressed into 16 minutes. You deserve a bottle of whiskey. Every time when someone asks me what I do for a living and why I'm always under pressure. I'm going to show them this video. I think I'm going to show the team this video. It's impossible to know it all... or is it?

You inspire me kms as a junior developer

This video can humble any programmer.

Just wanted to learn about programming languages, now I'm rethinking life. Thanks Jeff, THANKS A LOT ;)

Now that I watched this I can add 8 years of transistor programming experience to my resume

You are the coolest! Thanks a ton!

Absolutely incredible 🙏

I love the descent into esoteric self-exploration. Will now switch my major to philosophy.

Nim is such a nice language with a pretty decent history behind, sad it never went mainstream.

Fantastic review!

My brain began melting at the second-to-last category. But my god... the last 3 things you mentioned are grotesquely complex. When we're beyond the iceberg I'm at peace😂

The amount of energy - research you put in each video is amazing, it's always great to watch. especially love the way it's presented with combination of humor. cheers Jeff

This is hilarious, thank you! I'm only 5 minutes in, the garbage collector stealing the mailbox had me LOLing. Wonderfully done! :)

Thanks, that was very useful!

Very nice overview. I don't know how people can listen to > 10 minutes of talk with not a single pause, but I guess it is the style at the time.

I've been programming proffessionally in Silicon Valley for the last 5 years, & I can say this checks out. Most everything I do has been in Python and Javascript (+HTML/CSS), and sometimes Java. After running into the limitations of OOP/dynamic types, I started exploring functional languages & approaches and other statically typed languages. One note is that my undergraduate studies actually had us explore this iceberg in a u-shape: top, lower, then back to top again.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="445">7:25</a> C still the perfect language for embedded devices. Still millions of lines of code written in C by firmware engineers for the foundation of every IoT device and microprocessor based system (basically every device we have today). So I think embedded C should be nearly at the bottom of the iceberg, because to be able to write a peripheral driver for a 32 bit uC system from only the datasheet of the given uC, the engineer has to be familiar with the assembly and machine code of the given uC.

Your channel's logo is very topical because I'm hearing so many terms I'm barely familiar with and that's what my brain is doing right now.

I remember when I started coding in Python I struggled real hard. Not only with the thinking process but with the fact that the language takes a lot of stuff for granted that I didn't. I started with Pascal in school and wondered that I didn't need to declare variables, had no idea what variable type I had each time - I thought in a way too complicated for the language. Still my problem. I often say I do quantum computing because I am too stupid to understand how normal computers work. With understand I mean understand each level and layer. Modern computers are way too complex. A good friend once told me that he sucks at coding as well. He is one of the best hackers in my home country and suffers from the same issues I do. What I still don't get is object orientated programming though.

Man, things are so different these days, although you have certainly hit upon a few of the key points I've watched over the years. I discovered BASIC in a geometry textbook appendix when I was in tenth grade. I whined until I got a VIC-20 and learned BASIC and 6502 ML. That was more than enough for my first programming job in the '80s. But the next step was going to have to be either Pascal or C, both of which were supported by those amazing new IDEs Borland introduced. I physically went to a physical bookstore and purchased Turbo C. I made a living in the corporate world with C for about eight years, adding SQL and shell scripting along the way. Then came Visual Basic for a few years I'd rather not think too hard about, then Java. That one lasted me a very long time. It was introduced to me by an IBM consultant who was excited about their new "Visual Age" IDE. Youngsters will know it as Eclipse. I knew it as a properly object oriented language with a never ending series of new libraries and techniques. EJB 1.0 anyone? None for me, thanks, my brain is full. I admit it: It took me too long to absorb functional programming because it became so easy to do so much with OOP, and I had to support pre-8 Java versions for a long time anyway. These days I use JavaScript a lot, which is probably why I'm awake right now typing comments on RU-vid at 4 AM. I work with a team that really only knows JS frameworks, so I adapt. But man, the lack of native type safety feels so weird. The next big thing for programmers should probably be Rust. I'm learning it myself because if my portfolio collapses I'll be working for a few more decades. Besides, for a real developer, the learning is the real reward.

This was a wild trip, thanks Jeff!

Definitely loved the organization and detail and path of learning appreciate you will seek to work with you in the future ❤sweaty turtle gaming and innovation llc

❤wow.. u just blow my mind Sir.. I will remember you as legend