I’ve been developing in JavaScript for nearly 20 years and so am used to solving every problem with a JavaScript-shaped hammer. I don’t think I’m alone in this, and wanted to break out of that mindset. Over my career I’ve professional developed in 16 different languages (and used a further 10 out of curiosity) so I set about re-writing the same code in each of those languages. The purpose of the exercise was (and is) to learn, re-learn, and refresh my memory of these …