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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Javascript for sure.
Can I ask why? JS has been very intimidating to me but necessary since I know HTML5 and CSS and can't survive Web Dev world without JavaScript.
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!
Python definitely!
We’re the same here 👍
JS!
I'm curious to see how many people say JS, I see it so much so I won't be surprised to see it be a majority.
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.
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.
My first code was written in .lua so it gets a special place in my heart.
JavaScript because you can use it across the full-stack.
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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I definitely would like to check it out, I'm developing my own language as well but its nothing out of the ordinary yet