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Discussion on: 🏮Forem Creator Spotlight 💡and AMA: @rayan

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Lee

That's a great read. What programming languages did you start with? What do you use mostly today and why?

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Rayan Nait Mazi • Edited

Thanks Lee ! I started with the basics: HTML, CSS, JS and a bit of Python. But if I'm honest I've always been more of a Product guy and I'm barely average coding in all of this, I didn't even learn JS frameworks. What's always gotten me ahead was reusing the work of others and tweaking it to my needs. I'm a big fan of open-source, low-code and no-code tools (as long as you can access the code), it's gotten me to places where I can launch extremely quickly and test products on users.
Once user needs are validated and you need to custom code the solution in another way, well it's never been my side of the job !
For example when I need to set up a landing page or quickly build a CMS I almost always use webflow.com + some quick JS scripts.

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Lee

Nice, I like that. I remember Jack Dorsey saying something similar, has a hacker type mentality - use cool tools to get it going, if it works and is valuable let someone else who is a way better Dev get to work on it.

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Rayan Nait Mazi

Exactly !
And it's never been easier to hack away at problems by leveraging cool tech. In a way, it's also that philosophy I'd like to transplant into the social impact sector.