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Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT interested in and why?

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Re: Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT interested in and why?

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Post by beatgammit »

Basically anything on the JVM or .NET. I used to use Java and C#, had to use C++.NET for a job, and now I'm just done. I much prefer compiled languages and scripting languages, and I don't see much of a need for something in between. I also don't like working with Windows or Android, so there's not much reason for me to care.

For actual preferences, I use and like Go, I'm playing with Rust quite a bit, and I use Python, Lua, and JavaScript for simpler tasks. I'm also somewhat interested in Nim and Swift, but the latter just doesn't seem interested in being truly cross platform and I don't have any Apple devices, so it's in hold for now.

Re: Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT interested in and why?

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Post by xtracto »

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #21

Python. I've seen too much of what happens to code files on multi-person teams to ever want to have to deal with syntactically relevant white space. I know, large teams make it work. It still is a source of potential headaches that I don't need.

I am with you on that. I hate Python, and I always wonder why there isn´t any other popular language that has the idiotic policy of considering spaces part of the language syntax... there might be a reason for that.

Re: Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT interested in and why?

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Post by karmakaze »

C/C++ is what I started and built my first career on, back when performance mattered for just about every program.

Most .Net languages with the exception of F# which I'm quite curious about.

Haskell, not a popular language in general but in this circle. I still haven't bought into the value of building abstractions and abstractions upon that, and abstractions that let those abstractions play nice together. Ultimate yak shaving with a practical twist if you can pull it off. Seems too far removed for most problems I'm interesting in solving. Less higher-kinded functional langs (Clean, Elm), bring 'em.

Any ORM DSL. SQL is just fine.

Any version of ES20xx that's incompatible with TypeScript.

Scala. Tried it, abused it, went back and couldn't even read my own writing. I think it could be good in the right hands, those being someone who can design good languages for humans to use for each purpose. I haven't met many of them, mostly folks who just want to make a DSL using any/every feature available to do so.

Re: Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT interested in and why?

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Post by [deleted] »

bjourne wrote: post #28

Rust and the other new zero cost abstraction languages. Reason being that I think performance is a solved problem. The future is in safety and readability. Not squeezing the last few percent of fps out of your hardware. Go is in the same category. People are inventing better versions of C++ when I want them to invent better versions of Python. :)

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