Why do you love working with your programming language?

The Ruby repl that has long shipped with Macs is a real pleasure to use.

Often if I just need to do a thing, I type irb (which stands for Interactive Ruby) into my terminal and then I'm cooking with gas. And by "do a thing", I mean coding to solve a quick problem.

I need to add some numbers together? irb 2332 + 32312 + 3233
I need to count the characters in some text? irb "some text".count
I need to capitalize some text? irb "some text".upcase"

There are a lot of apps which each solve problems that are actually most easily solved with a really basic programming language like Ruby and irb tends to make it simple enough that it's the tool of choice a lot of the time.

I love Javascript! I just love that I can use the same language client and server side. And there are libraries and frameworks for pretty much anything. It's like... am I even a programmer? It makes my life and job easier, but it also makes it so much easier to help people start coding - teaching two languages (one for client, one for server) confuses people a lot.

On top of that, I kinda love the weird parts of Javascript. I love when something doesn't work and I find out it's because Javascript is being weird again. It's like my disappointing child.

I love Java because the language gets out of my way. It doesn't try to be too "clever" and instead focuses on scale. When you get an error or an exception in Java there's far less head scratching than any other language. I'm a firm believer in small/simple languages and HUGE powerful APIs. Java is pretty much the only mass market language that abides by that.

I used a lot of other languages and when you cross the 20k, 100k lines of code things get difficult... With Java we can have 1M lines of code in the project and you can still hack things within the project. You can still look at a variable, method or class and change something there knowing that encapsulation and determinism is solid.

The tools are at a completely different level than anything else. Even when they're available for other languages e.g. IntelliJ is better for Java than it is for Kotlin despite the fact that Jetbrains created Kotlin.

The language is stable, yes there are new things but code I wrote in the 90s still works "as is" which is amazing. I tried a lot of newer languages such as Kotlin, Python etc. There are things to like in all of them but most of the good innovations have already made their way back to Java syntax. I'm not a fan of a lot of the more extreme ideas in some of these languages that sometimes go against the way computers work under the hood. Java is low level enough to give me full control yet high level enough so I don't trip over when projects scale up.

In Kotlin, I deeply, deeply love the REPL and the fact that it has extension functions which let me do complexType.thing() rather than Utils.thing(complexType). The stdlib support for this is very rich and offers a metric ton more, so you can do file.inputStream() or 30.seconds for more succint code.

I've also slowly but surely climbed up the Rust proficiency ladder and come to appreciate it's focus on not hiding the nitty gritties of real world scenarios. For example, you cannot call platform specific methods like chmod/chown without an explicit check to ensure the code only runs on Unix. It's borrow checker based memory management model breeds good practices that I can carry to other languages, and the amazing compiler emits actionable, human friendly error messages, sometimes even the code that should have been in place of the code that isn't compiling.

I like JavaScript. I think it has more to do with its ecosystem rather than the language itself. And what I mean by that is, with JavaScript there is no entry barier. It's literally installed in almost every device, and you can send it to someone via a simple URL for them to run it. It is also very popular, so you can recieve so much support. Dev.to is a great example for that. Therefore, it is very appealing for people new to coding. Even though people need to understand coding is not just about Web or JavaScript, the reason it is a good thing is coding changes lives.

I absolutely love 😍 working with dart. It's amazingly graceful. I love that it's also client and server side plus web, desktop and mobile.
And so many other features like the underscore for field accessors etc.
I love working with golang too for some similar reasons.
And all these mixed with some VIM source. ☺

I personally love Kotlin and JavaScript just because both have very little to no boilerplate :) If JavaScript had better performance and was multi threaded I would write everything in JavaScript :)

I love Python because of its elegance.
I love PHP because of its practicality.
I love Java because objects and classes.
I love C# because its a much improved Java.
I love Visual Basic because it was the first language I learnt.
I love JavaScript because its like a communist dictator in the browser (and we have no other choice😀).

I don't love a particular language, I am proficient in multiple languages.

What I love is that, with effort, I can potentially create something that could be used by the world and in some small way benefit mankind.

I really like go, just because I can use the result on pretty much all the platforms I need.
Just a GOOS=target;go build file.go and I am done.
No more "does it work on Linux? Do I need to download stuff for Mac or windows?"
It just works.

And concurrency is basically for free, I love it.
The only thing go is really lacking imo is rich client UI stuff

XPath has the best map and filter syntax.

E.g. if you have a $list of numbers, you can multiple them all by two using $list ! (. * 2)

Or if you only filter the numbers greater than 50, you can write $list[. > 50].

Or together, filter and map: $list[. > 50] ! (. * 2)

It all works without explicitly declaring variables, functions or loops.

I mostly do Javascript stuff, and my favorite thing is the ease of getting started.

• I don't need a compiler or an IDE to create a new project, I just need a browser and a text editor. Worst case, I can do meaningful work to create an app in Notepad.
• HTML/CSS is a much more pleasant GUI than the Swing I learned in college.
• As a language, I don't need to worry about public static void Main(string[] args) {... boilerplate, I can just start futzing around with var foo = "stuff"; in my browser's console and see immediate results.

I like that JavaScript if available on my browser with a few keystrokes. It wasn't until I started working with Python that I realized how much I like being able to pop open the console, try out a bite-size piece of logic, and then go implement it.

I love working with Rust because you can write surprisingly fast and memory safe applications in a short amount of time. Dependency management is easy to understand. Furthermore, I find "ownership" an awesome feature.

actually i dont have preference right now whatever language that works for me wheter its python nodejs or c# i will use it