It seems like there are about 22 27 46 219 320 493 1840 active subscribers here. I have a few questions for you all.

  • Which programming languages do you regularly use?
  • Which are your favorite to work with and why?
  • Which do you have interest in trying and why?
  • moeris@beehaw.org
    5·
    2 years ago

    Professionally, I mostly use Kotlin, Typescript, and Java.

    For fun, I’ve recently been using BQN, which is quite nice compared to J, which I had been previously using. I also use Elm, Rust, Python and a smattering of others.

    • ericjmorey@beehaw.orgOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      The APL family of languages aren’t the most popular, but there seems to be cult like followings of each variation.

      • moeris@beehaw.org
        3·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, I think they’re just the more vocal subset of users. The same thing happens in functional languages. (Especially Lisp.)

        Array languages in general are fun to use because you can express a great deal in very little space. Of course, you have to think more about how to encode something, or even when reading. I feel like those are good muscles to exercise for when you’re reading more densely written code in any language.