Wordpress Development

[Cromulent]

I've been programming for some time but I've never programmed in PHP, and I've certainly never done any Wordpress programming. I've also never used MySQL (I have always used PostgreSQL in the past).

Do you think taking the time to learn PHP and MySQL along with Wordpress is a decent use of my time or should I learn a different language (Go seems interesting to me)?

I can already program in C, Python and JavaScript, so I don't expect PHP to be too tricky, but at the same time, I don't want to waste my time.

 

[Cromulent]

If you want to do WP stuff PHP is absolutely needed.

Yeah. But the question was whether I should take the time to learn Wordpress development (and as a result learn PHP) or whether I should use a more modern platform such as Go which seems like a fascinating programming language. I've already written a blogging system in Python, so doing the same in Go would be a fun experience but having said that if Wordpress development is lucrative, then I might concentrate on that.