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Re: Ask HN: What language has the best developer experience?

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Post by xupybd » Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 5:07 AM UTC

FuturePromise wrote: post #8

IMHO: 1. C# (Using Microsoft tools) 2. Erlang (Very robust, solid language) 3. Python (Lots of users, good tools.)

Thanks, Erlang sounds like it might be worth having a play with.

Re: Ask HN: What language has the best developer experience?

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Post by NicoJuicy » Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 8:26 AM UTC

I programmed in a couple of languages (nodejs, python, ruby, ..) and on my work i use c#

I always believe that c# has the best developer experience within the tools of Microsoft ( Eg. Visual Studio).

Try out Visual Studio community edition and see for yourselve

Re: Ask HN: What language has the best developer experience?

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Post by panic » Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 10:08 AM UTC

Of the languages I've used, Visual Basic (pre-.NET). I never used Hypercard, but I hear it was pretty good too. Newer languages tend to be too complicated to have great development environments.

Re: Ask HN: What language has the best developer experience?

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Post by deepaksurti » Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 12:14 PM UTC

Common Lisp (Emacs, Slime) or LispWorks (which has a free personal edition). After using live image based development, going back to the edit, compile, test cycle is like going back to the stone age.

And CL has libraries. See quick lisp. [1]

My own comparison with Python, which I have been using regularly. Python is a toy Lisp with all the adult parts hidden.

[1] https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/

Re: Ask HN: What language has the best developer experience?

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Post by saluki » Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 2:11 PM UTC

Laravel (PHP) has been a great experience.

Composer Valet/Homestead (Local Development) Forge (Builds Servers/Deploys Repos) Envoyer (Zero Downtime Deployment) Spark (SaaS Application Starting Point)

It keeps getting better and better.

laravel.com

Re: Ask HN: What language has the best developer experience?

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Post by premium-concern » Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 2:29 PM UTC

xupybd wrote: post #6

hoodoof wrote: post #5

It's a matter of personal preference. Explore a few languages, give them a try, see which one you like, then your question is answered.

Yeah, that's what I've been doing. So far Scala is winning. Go didn't seem to fit. Nim next.

Yes, Scala is a great choice.

Re: Ask HN: What language has the best developer experience?

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Post by AnimalMuppet » Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 4:14 PM UTC

Java with IntelliJ.

Um, that is, as long as you can just do Java or Android or something. If you're having to get into EJB and Spring and the corporate heavyweight development environment, that's not a pleasant world to work in, even with IntelliJ.

Re: Ask HN: What language has the best developer experience?

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Post by brudgers » Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 4:25 PM UTC

Racket. It's an ecosystem of languages. If it doesn't provide the language the developer wants, the developer can just make the changes.

Re: Ask HN: What language has the best developer experience?

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Post by projectramo » Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 10:42 PM UTC

You should probably ask about domain-language-IDE combos.

For example (and these are going to be controversial, but they're just examples):

Datascience - Python - Spyder IDE

iOS - Swift - Xcode

For the web, you get a lot more competition because it is a little harder to develop, and there are lots of backends and front ends to pick between. Probably:

Web app- Django/Rails/Restful Node - Sublime, Dev tools in chrome

and so on...

Re: Ask HN: What language has the best developer experience?

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Post by RaitoBezarius » Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 11:40 PM UTC

IMHO, Rust. Rust is very developer-friendly, great doc, user-friendly error messages, system level, cross-compilation friendly (\o/), you can experiment in the browser, etc…