Hi, I'm a complete useless lurker who do not know anything about programming, and I want to program an XMPP client :D. I have absolutely 0 competence, but I'd like to know if there is a language preferable to make such things, and if there is a place where I can start to learn. I tried with some basic tutorials and general lessons about programming, but without a clear goal I got bored and stopped after a little while. Thanks in advance for every advice/insult!

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[–] electrodynamica@mander.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (7 children)

First decide on a platform, then language. Do you want to make a windows gui client? Apple? Mobile? Web? *nix console?

GUI is the hardest part of programming on pretty much any platform, especially compared to how simple XMPP is.

Javascript/web is probably easiest for a beginner...

[–] Jama@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

You're right, I'd like to develop for android, and I prefer to learn something else than JavaScript. Thanks for the answer and the info of course :)

[–] brombek@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am no Android developer but apparently you can use Kotlin for that:

https://developer.android.com/kotlin/

[–] Jama@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Yep, I thought about Kotlin, maybe if I can learn that I could help jerboa development too :D

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