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 pwpwp » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:47 PM UTC

http://lbstanza.org/ because it reuses all the good stuff from Dylan.

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

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Post by kawera » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:47 PM UTC

Elm, because it helps to unload part of the cognitive burden of frontend development.

Elixir, to taste functional programming on the backend.

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

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Post by ori_b » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:47 PM UTC

Myrddin (https://myrlang.org). Mostly because it's my pet project, and it's fun to work on it.

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

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Post by bcheung » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:47 PM UTC

Elm. Because it is super clean and easy to read. The compile time errors are fantastic. I feel, if my app compiles then it is going to do what I want. Not so when developing with other JS frameworks. The whole paradigm feels like it is build for making web applications.

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

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Post by Etheryte » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:48 PM UTC

tal_berzniz wrote: post #13

ralusek wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The syntax looks awful? It looks extremely clean. It cleaned up the JS syntax enormously...

Talking mostly about things like: // 1. [a + b] // [a + b] is an array {[a + b]: c} // [a + b] is not an array // 2. { x, y: x, y} // inconsistent object fields and there are more examples. After you get to know the syntax, it can be used for good -- but some decisions are making the language more complex. As written above, I enjoy its new features

Bracket notation isn't anything new to ES2015, using it in that context is though.

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

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Post by baldfat » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:49 PM UTC

Racket - I love everything about it. It has Functional Programming that makes sense to me, I went through Haskell books 3 times over the years and took a few weeks to be flying with Racket.

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

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Post by shritesh » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:49 PM UTC

Crystal: Syntax inspired by Ruby, static types and compiled by LLVM. The standard library is mostly similar to Ruby (I'd say it's better. For example it rack-like functionality and websockets built-in). It's getting a lot of traction in the community.

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

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Post by atrudeau » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:51 PM UTC

shritesh wrote: post #37

Crystal: Syntax inspired by Ruby, static types and compiled by LLVM. The standard library is mostly similar to Ruby (I'd say it's better. For example it rack-like functionality and websockets built-in). It's getting a lot of traction in the community.

Crystal looks interesting, but is it usable in production? Any examples of people using it?

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

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Post by numlocked » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:53 PM UTC

Clojure. Particularly with Paredit mode in Emacs. The experience of manipulating semantic units of code vs. editing text is a joy and I really, really miss it when I return to e.g. Python.

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

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Post by there4 » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:53 PM UTC

PHP: With the new 7 release, it gets a surprising speed boost, a collection of elegant new syntax, and maintains backwards compatibility with an incredible ecosystem of packages. Modern projects like Laravel and Slim continue to push best practices, and the community is one of the largest. It's an incredibly versatile language with a robust feature set.