Ask HN: What programming language you will learn in 2018?

Post by steveklabnik » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 12:31 AM UTC

electricslpnsld wrote: post #18

meneame2 wrote: post #13

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Is Rust ready for scientific computing? I understand that given you are listing Rust alongside Solidity, your interest might be in cryptocurrencies, but I still thought this might be worth to ask. I'm very experienced in C++98, less so in C++11 and successors as I spent most of my time on other languages this decade (OCaml, Scala and R). C++11 is much more modern and appealing, so I'm wondering whether I should updat…

> Is Rust ready for scientific computing? Did Rust ever get integer generics?

Post by ha-shine » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 2:03 AM UTC

Post by mrath » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 3:28 AM UTC

Post by qaq » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 5:00 AM UTC

bgdkbtv wrote: post #26

ohstopitu wrote: post #4

Elixir + Erlang

I see it becoming super popular and being mentioned very often. Is it really that great or all just hype?

Post by qaq » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 5:20 AM UTC

bgdkbtv wrote: post #28

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You get really nice lang with very friendly community that will run on Erlang VM. So i'd say there is not enough hype :)

Is it a language and framework for web mainly? Couldn’t tell from their homepage.