If you were to dive into a programming language you've never used before, which one would you choose? Share your pick and the reasons behind it. Di...
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This reminds me of the "admired & desired" results in the stackoverflow developer survey, although I'm not quite sure how to interpret that. A lot of people desire to work with "zig"? really? I've only just heard of it.
I'd go for Go.
Maybe Zig?
Puns! No! NO PUNS NOOOOOOOOOOOO :)
Rust
My favorite languages are: D, Python, F#, and Lua.
For my day job, I currently program primarily in: C++ (C++17).
As long as we're dreaming, if I were king and switched from C++ to some other language for my day job, it'd likely be one of: Rust, Zig, Odin, Hylo (formerly Val), or Swift.
I'd also take a close look for consideration at Nim, Carbon, Jai (cough if Jon Blow ever finishes perfecting it cough), and Vale.
I’ve wanted to try Ruby/Ruby On Rails for a while, is that wrong?
I recently went basically all in Ruby on Rails (for my web app projects), and so far, I love it. I think that it's great time to start with Rails, as there are many great improvements happening, making Rails really powerfull way to create web apps!
Nice, that makes sense. I am definitely going to start using it!
I'm a fan of not having "a language." IMO this is for beginners who are learning to program, or for people who program casually.
Learn a ton of things -- languages, ecosystems, toolchains, etc but more importantly the underlying systems like the OS, browser, or device APIs -- and use the best tool for the job that you think you can figure out how to use.
Probably C/C++! I've dabbled with C, and I really enjoy it. The only reason that I don't use it all the time is that it's just not applicable to what I'm looking to do for a career. Although, I might start poking around with C++ for CP.
For webdev topics I would try Go as a backend server as I heard now several times that it is really comfortable for building simple backends fast and easy to understand.
To appreciate compilers, I would like to invest time into Rust as the compiler seems to be really, really good with precise error messages. But I assume the learning curve is way steeper and the time invest is probably huge to get a grasp on the Rust ecosystem and syntax.
Highly recommended, been doing a lot of work lately with Gin in Golang using standard Bootstrap with HTMX in the pages ( I'm backender I'm afraid! ), the Gin framwork makes it super fast to stand up a server and get the data flowing out into the pages is childsplay as it does all the heavy lifting with minimal effort.
I'll be focusing on Golang soon (I'm a Nodejs guy now)
I have thought that F# might be quite interesting.
I like functional programming so that aspect appeals to me. Bit put off by the whole .NET thing, though.
I'd like to choose D or F#.
I'd probably actually choose Rust or Zig or Nim or Odin or Hylo (formerly known as Val) or Swift.
I am interested in giving Python a try. Despite having used Java for nearly two years, I've heard that Python is considerably easier in comparison, although I haven't had the opportunity to try it myself.skysmotor.co.uk
Python.
Assembly and C.. I'd like to write my own OS kernel from scratch one day so these are essential but it will be very hard I know
I would love to try python. Currently I've been using java for almost 2 years and I've heard that python is much easier compared to it but I never actually tried it. 😅
I've been a big Python user for 12+ years, my next language would probably be Rust (to write high performance extensions and tools) or JavaScript (to learn modern web development)
I’d love to try Java
Wrote in Java for about 3 years back around 2014 and coming from C++ and Perl it was certainly an eye-opener! A nice language where a lot of things are taken care of but I feel like it's getting a little long in the tooth now, I moved on to C# after Java and felt like C# was more what Java should have been if the politics hadn't strangled it. I now do Golang and loving it.