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Recommend me a programming language (self.programming)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by pathief to c/[email protected]

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I've been working with a Javascript (+ TypeScript) + Java + SQL stack for the last 10 years.

For 2024 I'd like to learn a new programming language, just for fun. I don't have any particular goals in mind, I just want to learn something new. If I can use it later professionally that'd be cool, but if not that's okay too.

Requirements:

Runs on linux
Not interested in languages created by Google or Apple
No "joke languages", please

Thank you very much!

EDIT: I ended up ordering the paperback version of the Rust book. Maybe one day I'll contribute to the Lemmy code base or something :P Thank you all for the replies!!!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

The languages I've been meaning to learn, and do something "meaningful" in, are:

nim
erlang (or whatever is the most sensible modern variant)
lisp (ditto)

[–] Specal 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

COBOL

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[–] Serinus -1 points 10 months ago

I think Rust and C# are the future.

Controversial opinion, but I think Python, Java, VB, and others will become legacy languages. They'll be around for 30-60 years, just like Cobol, but I expect things to settle around other languages.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

I tried to get into Python, but always found it boring. Ruby was more my speed because it was inspired by Perl and that's the first language I learned. But Python will likely get you more job opportunities.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

C# is good. I use Visual Studio on Windows, so I'm not familiar with the tooling in VS Code in Linux, but I've heard good things. .NET is a nice environment to work in, the runtime works on all the OSs, and you can even package it into a self-contained binary with a little finagling.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (12 children)

PHP is a really fun language syntactically and has a surprisingly good built-in library.

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[–] abhibeckert -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Seriously - try PHP.

It's a much much nicer language than Java or JavaScript and unlike some of the latest languages (which are, arguably, even nicer) PHP has a massive library of third party packages that you can either use or just learn from.

And unlike Python, which is a general purpose language, PHP is purpose built for exactly the type of work you're doing.

Most PHP websites are wordpress, which deserves all of the crap people ditch on it, but all of that crap is wordpress not PHP, and there are other options. Start with this: https://phptherightway.com/pages/The-Basics.html

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