PHP or C++, I love both of them for different reasons. Tough one deciding between the two.
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JavaScript. I can't think of anything else that can be used for everything. It's a back-end language, a front-end language, it can be used for styling and animation, it can be an OOP language or a scripting language, and can make database queries & submissions. Is there another language that is as versatile for website development? I can't think of one.
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Go or Rust
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Ruby. It’s designed for developer happiness, and it’s beautiful. Not as beautiful as it once was, but still lovely to code in.
I just can't comprehend how anyone can think ruby is enjoyable to work in or beautiful. To me it's a dumpster fire. I would almost rather write php.
I can’t imagine thinking the opposite either. People are different. Matz’s attempts at backwards compatibility in Ruby 3, particularly wrt typing haven’t been kind to its more elegant origins, but ‘dumpster fire’ is baffling to me. Some people do like php , though, so 🤷🏻♂️
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Crystal is very similar to Ruby, but is compiled to native code instead. Would you consider that? Why or why not?
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Ruby seems like a clusterfuck for anyone who doesn't work on a project alone, change my mind.
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Clojure. Simple language for complex things. It also has java interop and Javascript interop and c# interop. So I will be fine.
Definitely lolcode.. HAI Can Has stdio KTHXBYE :)
I'm surprised no one has picked either macro assembly on their favorite ISA or, perhaps just to screw with people, Forth.
Probably Ruby. For some reason .. no, that's a lie .. playing with Exherbo, Gentoo and Funtoo, but mostly Exherbo, made me loathe Python. However, everyone in the data processing arena seems to use it, so I'm bound to have to change my ways eventually! For "Ruby": read "Python".
My days of needing high-speed low level languages are long gone. I learned C on Borland C++ back in 1990 to price derivatives on 386s. Loved it.
If I mess around with any language it's for fun. I intend to commit suicide, when my time is done, by the percussive head trauma that learning Haskell will cause me.
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C. I've been programming for over 30 years and it's the only language to survive. Imagine if I was asked this question 30 years ago and picked perl or Pascal, I'd be screwed today.
Zig
Choosing a high-level language would limit your world so all of those are out. I could make my own high-level language if absolutely necessary from Zig but the reverse is not possible.
Zig > C as it's easier to write safer more secure code while being as fast or even faster than C, and usable in embedded and other places only C is normally used. In fact, I can create C binaries with my Zig compiler.
Zig > Rust because actually writing safe Rust code would use all my time and sanity so would end up writing unsafe Rust, but then what's the point.
Zig > Go because Go is slower, higher level, and backed by one of the most evil entities to ever exist.
You could write a compiler for a low-level language in anything. Honestly makes little sense that most people do it in C++ when they're only going to replace it anyway.
Zig > Rust because actually writing safe Rust code
Start thinking more functional, I rarely have issues with the borrow-checker, or even have to write unsafe. But it obviously depends on the context, when the issue at hand really requires a lot of interior mutability or unsafe can be pain.
I'm also super fast nowadays with Rust, probably faster than with any other language (thanks to great tooling?).
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JavaScript because you can do everything with it and long term all other languages will, most likely, gradually fade away (except for C/C++).
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Big Kotlin fan.
Similar reasons to the commenter that talked about using a world class runtime, but the JVM is tested and works.
And now I can use Kotlin to make cross platform applications, while still utilizing the Java knowledge that I unfortunately possess? Perfect!
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