On: Advice for new software devs who've read all those...

[hnfong]

C++ 20 - Number of pages : 1853 ( https://www.iso.org/standard/79358.html )

Python language - Number of pages: ~206 ( https://docs.python.org/3/download.html )

Python standard library - Number of pages: ~2337 ( https://docs.python.org/3/download.html )

I don't know, but I have a suspicion you haven't read these cover to cover. Or maybe you have, for the latest version 10+ years ago. Is your advice to read the diffs when they update?

[throwawaaarrgh → hnfong]

Is your career in programming in Python? Then perhaps taking 4 weeks to read the Python docs a few hours a day, is worth the 30+ years you will be using that knowledge 40 hours every week (60,000 hours of work). And yeah, changelogs are there for a reason.

[strken → hnfong]

I've read the Go spec. It's short and sweet and doesn't include the standard library, though.

https://go.dev/ref/spec

Also the ecmascript-262 spec version 5.1, also known as es5.

https://262.ecma-international.org/5.1/

They were actually pretty interesting reads, and not too long. Maybe I should see if there's a PDF of the Node.js and Go standard libraries.

[dgritsko → strken]

Looks like this might be what you want at least for Node.js: https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v17.x/api/all.html