A statically typed scripting language. TypeScript is probably the best we have here but still brings a lot of baggage over from being based on JavaScript.
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#32My wish list is a little more pedestrian: 1. High level like python, but strongly typed 2. "normal" c style syntax 3. First class support for "green thread" style concurrency, like erlang 4. First class support for dataframes and the best of python's various ML/data packages. 5. A really great ORM well integrated into the language, that can handle elastic and nosql as well as sql. 6. A batteries included web solution…
umm, Go?
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#33Combine the speed benefits of C++ with the freedom of lisp. I don't think it's possible.
"Nim was created to be a language as fast as C, as expressive as Python, and as extensible as Lisp."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim_(programming_language)#Des...
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#34Gods no. No more. We already have hundreds (if not thousands) of programming languages for pretty much every niche out there (not to mention languages so flexible they can be adapted to meet any new niche). What this kind of question tells me is that folks are tired of solving business cases, and long for technical challenges. There's nothing inherently wrong with this longing, but we have enough programming language…
> I hope you can humour me and not challenge the assumptions baked into the question. That's a separate, if interesting, exercise.
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#35If someone would combine the syntax of Ruby (it's fun to read and write) with the performance and static binaries of Go, I think it would be very popular.
I would like to enjoy writing Go as much as I enjoy writing Ruby. But Ruby apps are slow and hard to deploy. Combining their strengths would be great IMHO.
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#36Gods no. No more. We already have hundreds (if not thousands) of programming languages for pretty much every niche out there (not to mention languages so flexible they can be adapted to meet any new niche). What this kind of question tells me is that folks are tired of solving business cases, and long for technical challenges. There's nothing inherently wrong with this longing, but we have enough programming language…
I imagine if this question was asked in 2010 then there would've been a similar answer from someone. And if no new programming languages were created at that point then we wouldn't have gotten Rust.
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#37A modern replacement to SQL that doesn't require banging your head against a wall to write anything non-trivial.
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#38I want a programming language that can do a lot, from web, game and IoT, with type system like Haskell/TypeScript/Rust/Ocaml and simplicity of Go
> I want a programming language that can do a lot, from web, game and IoT,
So far, Rust...
> with type system like Haskell/TypeScript/Rust/Ocaml
Still Rust...
> and simplicity of Go
As long as that's ”for similar tasks” and anywhere outside of Go’s particular sweet spots, AFAICT, that's still Rust...
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#39If someone would combine the syntax of Ruby (it's fun to read and write) with the performance and static binaries of Go, I think it would be very popular. I would like to enjoy writing Go as much as I enjoy writing Ruby. But Ruby apps are slow and hard to deploy. Combining their strengths would be great IMHO.
Are you talking about Crystal? (Minus the binary part)
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#40If someone would combine the syntax of Ruby (it's fun to read and write) with the performance and static binaries of Go, I think it would be very popular. I would like to enjoy writing Go as much as I enjoy writing Ruby. But Ruby apps are slow and hard to deploy. Combining their strengths would be great IMHO.
Have you heard of https://crystal-lang.org/ ? I've never used it personally, but it seems to be "statically compiled Ruby syntax"