What's your favourite programming language? Any particular reason like difficulty/learning curve, job prospect, tools, etc.
For me personally, it's Rust, one reason is that I love all the tools integrated into Cargo, the language's syntax that just works like how I think, and the memory/thread safety in safe Rust.
I always see myself using it in some way, even in my own programming language that's written in C, guess what going to make all of the documentation (html/man pages), exactly it's Rust!
Please feel free to comment your favourite language and some reasons of why.
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C. Whenever i write in other languages (Apart from assembly) i feel like i'm doing something else alongside programming, for example, studying philosophy (When writing in OOP style). Whenever i write in C i feel like i'm making computer go beep boop
That's very interesting and I get what you're saying, when I write in C I really do feel oh this is what's going to happen, I really do feel like I'm talking to the computer.
Clojure, because it makes programming fun!
Also, it has a lot of dialects. Well over 10. Knowing Clojure allows me to target a variety of platforms effectively. JVM, CLR, Node, JS, ....
I'll be honest, I've never heard of Clojure but I'll definitely check it out.
I didn't know that I could develop for JVM and CLR with Clojure. That's enough to add it to my next learning objective. Thanks!
I'm going to have to say MS Basic. I know, I know, I know, hold on. I'm not picking it for its merits as a language. I'm picking it because that was the first language my 8-year-old-self ever saw in their life. It's the one that got that first light bulb to go off in my head with an audible "whoa". It's the one that is still largely responsible for my career choice in life -- 33 years later -- so while I haven't touched it since, and while I would not necessarily recommend it to newcomers now, I owe it this much ¯_(ツ)_/¯.
That's very sentimental, I know before I got into Rust, I was really into C++ and even though I haven't touched it since, theres still a lot of what I understand in programming that's owed to it.
RUST for sure
Yeaaaahhhhhh
Why Rust might I ask?
Sometimes I feel like I hate all languages, except for the ones I don't know enough to hate them. Considering this it would be elixir.
Being a bit more serious now, I like C but I don't really know why, and python because it's very practical for any kind of automation.
Haskell - you can express your mental concepts very clearly. Sometimes I find myself solving a problem in Haskell as it allows you to concentrate on the essentials and then recoding the solution in the environment I need it in.
I usually love every programming as long as my current program is working, but when the bugs appear, I feel like it's the worst language ever! Now seriously, if I had to pick, here would be a top 3 in no particular order:
Dart, for mobile apps, and lately web apps too.
TS for web
Python or JS for scripting
I quite enjoy C# for windows stuff
But if I had to pick one, it would have to be dart, I freaking love it
Interesting, I've definitely preferred Flutter for mobile compared to other frameworks, I haven't done much with it but I may look into it again.
Could not recomend it more, I think I will live 10 more years thanks to it! Once you get into it, it's a pleasure to work with. It's evident that Google learned what not to do in a framework from the problems angular had and still has.
Almost eveything within it makes sense, no confusing apis, very logical and intuitive naming and excelent docs!
Give it another try, you will not be disappointed
That's enough encouragement to give it another try, thanks!
My favorite language is JavaScript, because I started with JS about 11 months ago. I feel that I can easily learn this language, and I already work as a JS frontend. But I also like Python, I studied for a short time and I want to study again this year!
Good.
Python definitely!
We’re the same here 👍
I don't have a single favorite.
My favorite compile-to-binary application language is D. I find it to be "a better C++ than C++".
My favorite general purpose scripting language is Python.
My favorite functional programming language is F#.
My favorite embedded scripting engine language is Lua.
PHP
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Don't jump to conclusions. First of all I started programming with Visual Basic 6. Then I learned C, C++ (not much, actually) and I learned C#, it was really great, I even could do some projects as a freelancer. But after that I got hired in a company and they wanted me to learn Java and JavaScript, so I wanted the job and I learned them. And now I'm majoring in AI, so started learning Python.
Between all of these languages my favorites really are:
My favourite language is Kotlin, because it has everything that i wanted like, how it compiles to target different set of platforms by which i can make various types of applications, its interoperability with other languages, different paradigms that it supports, its modern syntax and idiomatic style, coroutines, tools, its features that i cannot find in other languages, how much object-oriented and functional it is that we can make our own dsl(s), it is useful for scripting too, and u can find even more advantages of kotlin in my blog post:
Advantages of Kotlin
ＭＯＨＡＮ👨🏻💻 ・ Jan 19 ・ 2 min read
My first code was written in .lua so it gets a special place in my heart.