Typescript. I greatly prefer C-Style curly brace languages over Pythonese langs. Also the typesystem is incredible, as it allows you to be as precise or not as you want which is a huge boon.
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JavaScript because you can do everything with it and long term all other languages will, most likely, gradually fade away (except for C/C++).
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Go. Nothing strikes a balance of ease and performance like go
Ruby. It’s designed for developer happiness, and it’s beautiful. Not as beautiful as it once was, but still lovely to code in.
I just can't comprehend how anyone can think ruby is enjoyable to work in or beautiful. To me it's a dumpster fire. I would almost rather write php.
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Crystal is very similar to Ruby, but is compiled to native code instead. Would you consider that? Why or why not?
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Go or Rust
Definitely lolcode.. HAI Can Has stdio KTHXBYE :)
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Clojure. Simple language for complex things. It also has java interop and Javascript interop and c# interop. So I will be fine.
C. I've been programming for over 30 years and it's the only language to survive. Imagine if I was asked this question 30 years ago and picked perl or Pascal, I'd be screwed today.
I don't really want to do everything in one language but if I did have to pick it would probably be Julia. It's slightly simpler than Python, and significantly faster without relying on APIs written in C. And has some really great features like broadcasting, multiple dispatch, and a good type system. The only place I feel like Python has it beat is quantity of libraries and support network, which both basically come from the same origin of just having more users. I'm hoping more data science types switch over in the next few years, since Julia is already great for most things mathematical. And I hope that momentum allows Julia to perhaps reach out to other domains.
I'm surprised no one has picked either macro assembly on their favorite ISA or, perhaps just to screw with people, Forth.
JavaScript. I can't think of anything else that can be used for everything. It's a back-end language, a front-end language, it can be used for styling and animation, it can be an OOP language or a scripting language, and can make database queries & submissions. Is there another language that is as versatile for website development? I can't think of one.
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