Just like the title says, I wonder why people chose Python or Java or GoLang etc.. And also if you say learned Python and you transitioned to xyz language, how easy/hard was it for you?
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I love Rust because it enables me to really express my thoughts. For example, real immutability enables simple designs by allowing you to provide read-only access to fields. Enumerations ("Tagged Unions") are a great alternative to Inheritance. Option types instead of 'everything could be null' really help avoiding mistakes at compile time. Plus, Rust has performance similar to C++. Before learning Rust, I didn't know how important an ergonomic dependency management system is. <3
I love two languages: Python, OCaml (also F#)
I chose Python for simplicity, ecosystem, and popularity. Popularity makes it easier to find a job. Simplicity is awesome. It's so similar to PSEUDO Code so it's easy to learn. The ecosystem is really big, but there are a little bit bad libraries so.
I chose OCaml for because it's functional, advanced, compiled (directly into native code), ML (Metalanguage, not machine learning), functors, generating lexers & parsers & compilers easily (First rust compiler was written in OCaml), and so on. It's perfect, but there are no so many people using it. There is F#, which is really similar. Even I can help F# dev as OCaml dev with 0 F# knowledge!
I've learned many C-style langs, also some lisp style and some esoteric ones. I've only seen a few I don't like, for example haskell, brain-f***.
For professional projects I now try to work within C, C++, Java, Golang, Python or PHP with a handful of DSL's and declaratives. I do like C# (so similar to Java on surface), but don't have time for it in my life, and will probably drop it like I did PERL, various BASIC dialects and the Pascal's.
I Use languages generally because clients are using them, or there is a significant body of work.
Language I'm interested in but cannot get enough time for is Rust. I'm not good enough with rust nor do I have heaps of systems-programming experience so work isn't an option. I've also been updating my C++ so it's not just C with classes and I can use newer language features. It's a journey, but also not something I feel competent in as a full-time programmer.
Whatever people pick, I hope they know that as long as they don't hate the language or it's concepts, they've made a good enough choice for right now.
Liked especially for that last statement. People should choose X language because it makes sense to them, they enjoy using it, they see an opportunity to do something cool with it, or because it solves a problem -- not because it's the most popular or other people won't pick on you for using it.
My languages kind of chose me in the beginning. My first job my coworker had used some php to accomplish some tasks so I picked it up to continue automating some things. This eventually led us to build a marketing feed ingestion website which we wrote with Symfony/PHP/Python and gearman for async scaling. The web requires javascript so that came along for the ride.
Eventually I moved jobs and out of the silicon valley area (I mean who can afford that rent!?) and eventually discovered typescript. This was a glorious new way to write javascript. Very recently I had a chance to do something for a one of project and decided to use Go, which is very easy to learn. Then very recently I decided to take a modern C++ udemy class, though I have not yet done anything with C++.
Overall I would say transitioning languages is not that hard. They mostly share the same characteristics and you just need to figure out the exact syntax. I suspect the biggest thing that will make using C++ difficult is the fact that there is just so much syntax to remember.
During a normal week, it is very common for me to code in at least 4 different languages, depending on the project.
However, my favorite language is Ruby. I learned it only for using Rails, but it ended up to be my "main" language.
I can transform my toughts into code faster with Ruby.
I'm learning Ruby for the exclusive reason that Flatiron School teaches Ruby. (Later I'll also learn JavaScript for the front end)! Prior to this, I was learning C++ because my college taught C++. So in many ways, my choices were made simply by what resources were available to me.
If I were to choose any language and be able to have great resources for it, that language would be Python. However, I've fallen in love with learning Ruby, and I can't wait to start making applications in Rails!
Bah. A pragramming language chooses you!
Many language choices were thrust upon me.
Others I chose based on information I found about them.
Most transitions were not difficult, because many of these languages use a C-like syntax and familiar debug/compile cadences. And hardly anything is worse than where I started: DOS batch scripting. :)
All of them require learning a new set of "libraries". But some transitions were notably difficult.
Each language has pros and cons!
That sort of thing! It's fun to learn new languages imo, and I enjoy finding how I can best leverage them for different problems
I learnt:
Visual basic: Got bored when I was a kid and this at the time was recommended to learn. I've never liked it.
Python: I wanted something more than Visual basic, my brother had been writing Python since 2009 and suggested it to me.
Java & C#: I originally went into games development and found out that these two were the most popular for game development.
C & C++: Its currently on my university course but back then I wanted to learn something that is involved in almost everything, you'll find them in operating systems, languages, networks etc
Rust: I love the feel of Rust and the C/C++ aspects of it, the cargo package I have found to be very good also.
At university we're being taught web dev (HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript) in the next year. While I know the first three to a good extent TypeScript is next on my list.