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Ask HN: What programming languages are you using at $WORK?

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Re: Ask HN: What programming languages are you using at $WORK?

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Post by solumunus »

Typescript, both front and back end with SvelteKit. There are silly foot guns in JavaScript and I wish the language was designed better, but aside from that there’s huge benefit to doing everything in one language and not having to context switch. My validation logic and data types are identical across front and back end, that’s hard to beat for me. I’m building a traditional business ERP and Node is plenty fast for that.

Re: Ask HN: What programming languages are you using at $WORK?

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Post by JohnFen »

giantg2 wrote: post #21

Which ones aren't we using? I get the "opportunity" to be a shitty developer in multiple languages all at the same time - Python, Scala, Angular, and Java, to name a few main ones. All these people naming just one language (or even 2) are making me jealous. I'd probably be less shitty if I got to focus.

I don't think that being able to develop in multiple languages implies that you're going to be bad at developing in those languages at all.

I've been a dev for a very long time, and am competent in a lot of different languages (expert in far fewer, of course). But I don't use all of those languages all the time. I use the one(s) that are relevant to whatever my current project is. That's usually just one or two at a time.

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