Ask HN: Which new programming language are you planning to pick up in 2019?

#1

Post by nandaja » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 11:28 AM UTC

I am giving a good amount of thought to picking up Go for fun and profit this year.

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Post by taf2 » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 11:51 AM UTC

Rust

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Post by muzani » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 12:20 PM UTC

I've never actually planned to pick up any languages in the past. Normally just get forced into it.

It might be Ruby this year though, just because it's a part of our current tech stack.

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Post by oftenwrong » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 12:47 PM UTC

I don't plan to learn any new languages.

Also this might have been better as a poll:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

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Post by lexda15 » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 2:26 PM UTC

Python

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Post by 15DCFA8F » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 2:45 PM UTC

I’m conflicted between Go and Rust. As my codebases get bigger, maintaining them in Python is not fun.

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Post by runjake » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 4:03 PM UTC

Ruby

I don't find Python fun at all. I wish I did.

I've been messing around a lot with Sonic Pi, which seems to use a Ruby-based DSL and I love the expressiveness of Ruby.

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Post by potta_coffee » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 4:18 PM UTC

I've been interested in Go for a while, but I never seem to find the time. I just started a new Python project last night.

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Post by snazz » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 4:21 PM UTC

I’ll be the outlier: I’m working on learning Chicken Scheme, because it’s a new paradigm and most of the libraries and frameworks I need are already there.

So far, I’m surprised at how easy it is to get started writing a web app with the Awful framework (for my fairly simple needs, it’s anything but awful). Then again, I’m not employed as a programmer, so I’m not evaluating new languages based solely on practicality.

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#10

Post by a-saleh » Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 4:41 PM UTC

Either Ocaml or ReasonML. I always liked functional programming, and dabbled in haskell, but it always seemed too much of an investment to bring anybody who doesn't already like haskell into the project. But they did add deriving_via to haskell recently, so maybe I change my decision :P