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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I haven't done much with it at all but Dart felt nice while I was using it.

Out of the ones I use often prob C#.

[โ€“] yetiftw 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

matlab ๐Ÿ˜ˆ because I love figuring out how to vectorize code! I've used it for various art projects (see below) and it manipulates images beautifully. and the documentation and error messages are easy to follow.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Where's the love for VBScript?!

[โ€“] hactar42 4 points 1 year ago

In 2008. (The year PowerShell 2.0 came out)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm probably the black sheep here, but I love Kotlin. It has the best parts of strong typed, object oriented languages and functional languages. Though I feel like it being designed to be bytecode compatible with Java really limits its applications. Even though they have a scripting language version of it, it really doesn't perform well as a scripting language because you need to compile it. I find myself always using Python for scripts instead.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't believe I scrolled all the way down and didn't find Scala. It's the only language with decent traction that beautifully and elegantly combines functional programming and object oriented programming. Scala makes it such that the language does not limit you into a certain paradigm. You can translate your algorithm in your mind into code regardless of how you thought of it. Incredibly flexible where you need it to be.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Very few people use Scala. I think it's used in some data transformation pipelines and that's it....

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[โ€“] tclement09 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kotlin: compatible with Java, JS, Wasm, Swift and even C++, ability to share code across all those platforms, way less verbose than Java, lots of useful functions in the standard library... I still don't understand why some people are saying it's just Java but worse

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[โ€“] De_Narm 3 points 1 year ago

Clojure. I not only get to use a functional language but also get to use all the libraries written for an actually popular language (Java, or JS for ClojureScript). Altough I'd choose something else if functional programming should ever catch on.

[โ€“] RagingRobot 3 points 1 year ago

I try to stay language agnostic but if I'm honest JavaScript is my favorite because of the speed it provides. Also I like to build we based things so it's always in the stack

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Scala. Multiparadigm. A touch of OO is nice in the functional world.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently Zig. It really is "better C", and i like C.

Otherwise it would be Erlang, but it does not suit what i want to do now.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Perl. I can use it after awhile away without having to look up how to do things. It adapts to the best style for what I need to do.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

HTML 4, cause I leaned it in 1998 when I was 10 and it's the only language I know (besides English) .

[โ€“] cumcum69 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like typescript because it's all I've used for the last 3 years and I now think in it

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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