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What's Your Fav Lang?

Mustafif on May 12, 2022

What's your favourite programming language? Any particular reason like difficulty/learning curve, job prospect, tools, etc. For me personally, it...
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VanPonasenkov

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

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Mustafif

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.

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Daniel Fitzpatrick

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, ....

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Mustafif

I'll be honest, I've never heard of Clojure but I'll definitely check it out.

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Terry

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!

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Arik

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)_/¯.

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Mustafif

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.

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Nathan

RUST for sure

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Mustafif

Yeaaaahhhhhh

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Terry

Why Rust might I ask?

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Fen

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.

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Captain Fim

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.

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MiguelMJ

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:

  • C++ because it was my first programming language and feels so natural to me.
  • Python because it makes me feel like I can program literally anything in a few lines.
  • Prolog because it makes my brain feel weird.
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Keff

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

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Mustafif

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.

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Keff

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

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Mustafif

That's enough encouragement to give it another try, thanks!

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Dev Nicole

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!

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kingstar1115

Good.

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Medea

Python definitely!

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Evans✨

We’re the same here 👍

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Eljay-Adobe

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.

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aden1web

PHP

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walidul • Edited

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Erfan

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:

  1. Java
  2. Python
  3. C#
  4. JavaScript
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MOHAN👨🏻‍💻 • Edited

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:

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Guilherme Thomas

My first code was written in .lua so it gets a special place in my heart.

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Conner Ow

Javascript for sure.

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Terry

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.

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Lucas Perez • Edited

I really like Elixir. The syntax is very pleasing, it is easy to get started and the functional approach to solving problems just makes more sense. The code gets very composable, testable and it is fun to write.

It also has extraordinary docs.

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Andrew Belykh

JS!

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Mustafif

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.

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Andrew Baisden

JavaScript because you can use it across the full-stack.

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Mustafif

I definitely would like to check it out, I'm developing my own language as well but its nothing out of the ordinary yet

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Grant McNamara

Python With HTML, JS,CSS. Super simple to use together and i can make powerfull apps with them together

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Jakub T. Jankiewicz • Edited

I have two favourite languages: JavaScript and Scheme. I even combined the two and created LIPS Scheme.

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Neil Cantorne

RUST i love it's concept of memory management. never had segfault exception like when working on C++ projects.

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Paul Crane

Right now it's Go. I also love D and Lua. Really I just love learning new programming languages.

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Rutvij Doshi

Is DSA is required for doing Frontend stuff ?

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Mustafif

Dsa is good to know in any kind of development because it teaches you how to write efficient code, so learn it if you can.

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Adam Getchell

C++, though I wish it would adopt #circlelang 's features.

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Haqor Ayush

For me, it's gonna be python and Angular Recently

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Ben Sinclair

Hi! Just a heads-up that the #help tag is for when you need to ask for help, not so much for general discussion. Keeping it that way means that helpful users can easily sift through posts and answer questions on their lunchbreaks.

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Mustafif

Oh thank you, sorry about that

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Pontakorn Paesaeng

My current favorite is C#. It is nice and mature. I don't like the complexity of dotnet but at least things are united. Microsoft provides dependency injection, entity framework, configuration framework, and web framework. I also miss functional features such as discriminated union. Also, some tutorials are seriously old.

If I get more chance to use F# and Kotlin, my favorite language might change.

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Dimitrios Desyllas • Edited

Stopped using that concept any more. Any language is good as long as it does the job I want, even better it is a mean of having a good bank account.

Usually frameworks and languages choose you and you don;t have the ability to choose. Also at any language shitty code exists and someone has to fix it like it or not. Being me fixing shitty code keeps my bank account happy.

A technology I don't want to work with though is .NET .

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Mustafif

That still doesn't mean a developer can't have a preference

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Dimitrios Desyllas • Edited

I just find useless for me to have preference, cause usually I won't work on it. The only way to work in tech stack I want is via doing it by myself in my own projects.

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Jonathan Lao-Kan

That is indeed the case most of the time.

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Terry

I would have to say Java because it is my first real serious language even though I started out years ago with Basic on a TSR-80 and Qbasic on Windows 95 and up and came up on a set of 3.5 Borland C++ installation disks before I knew what C++ even was.

I like C# as it's not much different from Java in the world of OOP languages and Pythons simplicity just makes coding some tasks a breeze. If Python was a band, it would be the equivalent to the Beach Boys lol

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Bhagya

JavaScript for sure!!🙋‍♀️​🌺​

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Ivad Yves HABIMANA

I now use mostly Javascript but I have learned Java and Python but so far I think Java would be my favorite if I had to choose

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Aris アリス

Javascript Ohh Yeahh!!