Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

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Post by abecedarius » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:38 PM UTC

https://github.com/monte-language/monte is reviving E, the distributed capability language.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

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Post by drinchev » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:42 PM UTC

kerryritter wrote: post #3

As primarily a C# and JavaScript developer, I'd say TypeScript. Best of both worlds and I feel pretty productive in it (once past the pain of setup).

Not a c# dev, but definitely typescript makes me feel more motivated to write code these days.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

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Post by stusmall » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:42 PM UTC

ryanlm wrote: post #14

jjpe wrote: post #9

Rust: it provides extremely strong guarantees about your code at compile time so that usually it feels like a script language with C/C++-levels of performance. And the best part: no data races, and no runtime garbage collector overhead.

Is that all? That's a pretty generic reason IMO.

To long time C developers, it's a huge deal. I'm starting my first primarily rust job on Monday and I'm extremely excited about it.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

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Post by fokinsean » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:42 PM UTC

Elm because I'm new to functional programming and it hurts my head.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

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Post by eeks » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:45 PM UTC

Picolisp. And of course OCaml.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

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Post by beginrescueend » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:45 PM UTC

ttronicm wrote: post #4

Elixir makes me warm and fuzzy.

I second Elixir. Concurrency and HA are the future!

Re: Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

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Post by dikaiosune » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:46 PM UTC

stusmall wrote: post #23

ryanlm wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that all? That's a pretty generic reason IMO.

To long time C developers, it's a huge deal. I'm starting my first primarily rust job on Monday and I'm extremely excited about it.

Where, if you don't mind sharing?

Re: Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

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Post by gshock » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:46 PM UTC

F# is pretty sweet. It's concise, no ceremony, type safety, can be used with all .net libs, functional. I'm a beginner but love diving into it.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

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Post by igorgue » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:46 PM UTC

ttronicm wrote: post #4

Elixir makes me warm and fuzzy.

Same here, it makes me go like woo!

Re: Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

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Post by jordigh » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:46 PM UTC

D (dlang). It's the C++ I always wanted. It's safe, modern, fast, and familiar. It's got classes with reference semantics, structs with value semantics, safe concurrency by default, support for functional programming, concise syntax yet with the C/Java/C++/C# flavour, speed, a compile-time complete D interpreter (thus allowing metaprogramming in the same language as the runtime language, almost lisp-like), plus all the common syntactic niceties we've come to expect from modern languages.

My only complaint so far is that the reference implementation has a stupid license, but most other D users just ignore the terms of the license. I had also found a performance bug in an stdlib function, but it's since been addressed in dev.