Kotlin is excellent. All the features of Java, but much more concise. It's close to pseudocode, maybe even better. So you spend your time just coding and what's on your mind instead of wrestling with design patterns.
Ask HN: Beginner-friendly languages from the last decade?
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Re: Ask HN: Beginner-friendly languages from the last decade?
#12What are you aiming to build? Without any additional detail I can say Elixir fits your criteria but may not be what you actually need! It's beginner friendly in my experience, cross-platform, and is a functional programming language which I'd put in the pros column for beginners.
Re: Ask HN: Beginner-friendly languages from the last decade?
#13What are you aiming to build? Without any additional detail I can say Elixir fits your criteria but may not be what you actually need! It's beginner friendly in my experience, cross-platform, and is a functional programming language which I'd put in the pros column for beginners.
My main goal is to create a couple of applications. I'm not a big fan of web dev. I want to write for Windows and Linux.
Re: Ask HN: Beginner-friendly languages from the last decade?
#14Crystal, Nim and Julia are modern languages and reasonably easy to start learning. Crystal is very close to Ruby in syntax (but not identical). It is not cross-platform yet, but developers are working on a Windows port. It is not yet at version 1.0 (Nim and Julia are). All are general purpose languages but each language has attracted developers concentrating on different fields. Julia is designed for high-performance…
Nim is very close to a statically typed Python.