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Eljay-Adobe

My favorite programmings languages are:
F# for functional programming.
Lua for an embedded scripting language.
Python (3.x) for general purpose scripting language. Also my recommendation for the best programming language to learn as your first programming language.
D as a "better C++ than C++" language.

My "on the horizon" languages I'm keen on are:
Elm as a web language.
Rust as a potentially "the next mainstream language".
Swift as the language for Apple platforms.

The language I use day-in and day-out is C++.

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Adam Laston

lua was the first language i ever tried and i was obsessed with it since i was 11 but was always overwhelmed with it. I learned JS and perhaps I will revisit it.

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Ted Brunz

Look for luawinmulti on GitHub. It will instruct you to install mingw, then guide you in installing Lua. It supports 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3. You'll end up with a Lua environment that runs out of a standard Windows command shell.

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Corey O'Connor

Always wanted to learn F#! Looks nice.

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Eljay-Adobe

The Book of F# by Dave Fancher is a great introduction and tutorial to F#. I've read many F# books, and that was the only book that I'd recommend. (I just started reading Expert F# by Don Syme this weekend, I'm on chapter 1, so I cannot recommend nor criticize.)