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Ask HN: If you could master one technology this year, what would it be?

9 points by thebigkick ↗ HN
If someone had a gun to your head and asked you to choose one thing to learn that you thought would bear the most fruit which framework, language, software would you choose. Only one.

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[dead] mneumegen
Node.js. Realtime web apps using websockets look like they will take off this year. I've played around with Event Machine a bit but the Node syntax looks more natural.
suyash
Native Mobile App Development
freework
What advantage does native have over HTML5?
Devlin_Donnelly
Efficiency as well as integration with the native OS's style & interface.
bjourne
SciPy: http://www.scipy.org/ If you know that and the background math it requires, then you are fit to work in almost any data analysis setting you can imagine.
logn
SilkJS, CouchDB, JavaScript
tagabek
I would choose native mobile app development (with a focus in iOS).
AbhishekBiswal
Native mobile app development - Java [Android] and Django / or any other framework.
davidxc
WebGL. I can see it being used for a lot of interesting graphics applications in the browser.