I want to begin to automate actions on hive/hive-engine for myself. Mostly token actions (trading, staking, unstaking, etc.), not curating/voting. I am planning to begin learning Linux/Python. Am pretty tech saavy and have been around since the TRS-80, so I am confident I can pick things up quickly ( 🤣 ).
I assume I would need to run a node to control this myself (I am guessing both Hive and Hive-engine). Would a full node be best?
Also I am a bit of a mosachist and am considering learning C/C++ eventually for myself. Better to just stick with python in the beginning for automated stuff or suck it up and do it the hard way
You do not need a node, you can use public nodes. When you get to the point where you have a public app that has a lot of demand on a node, then you would consider running at least one node to support it.
I would highly recommend python, you can always move to JS later if you want. That's really the best options for Hive. There is a Rust library, but I don't know the state of it. Rarely would I recommend C/C++ for a project.
Thanks! Python certainly seems the most accessible. Didn't even think about just using the public at first though I knew that was possible.