How many programming languages do I know? I have no idea!!

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What counts as "knowing"? I'm completely fluent in English and Dutch. This is true for most people in the Netherlands. Does that mean we all know two languages? I would say so, yes.

Programming languages are different though, probably. I am very comfortable in C#. It's my language of choice for most of my projects. Despite that, I wouldn't consider myself an expert at all. There is an unimaginably vast sea of knowledge about C# that completely eludes me. Am I "fluent" in C#? Does that question even make sense??? Idk man.

I'd probably claim that I know C#, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Fish, and Rust. I say this in the sense that I could probably write anything I want in any one of these languages without time to prepare. Still... if I spent a few hours in Lua, it's likely that I could add that to the list as well. That probably goes for any of its dialects too. Same goes for Python. Or Bash. Kotlin? F#?? C and C++, maybe, because I used to reluctantly work with them. But I don't know them.

Anyway all of this is to say that I have no fucking idea. Programming languages are just kind of the same. Knowing one of them makes the others seem way too familiar.