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Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT interested in and why?
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#2Currently I am not interested learning modern front-end stack and js-framework-of-week. Life is short. This stack is changing so fast. I will wait few more years. Hopefully then it will be stable to learn.
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#3Pretty much all of them. I started with C and never liked OO programming. Even when kind of optional in the language, for your own code, you still have to deal with an OO library ecosystem because everyone writes the libraries that way when the language supports it.
It kind of depends on what you mean by popular. I don’t have much interest in Rust. It has a lot of hype right now. It doesn’t seem like a bad language, just too low level for what everyone wants to use it for (due to hype and most people not writing OSes).
Re: Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT interested in and why?
#4I can't really think of a current language I wouldn't be interested in learning or learning better.
But there are languages that I am just not sure I am sold yet on, like Haskell. I am not saying it is bad as I just don't know, and functional programming isn't bad, but I am just not sure why Haskell over other options. Would love to hear reasons it might be a better choice and in what circumstances it is advantageous.
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#5Ruby. I just think it's ugly.
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#6Ruby. I just think it's ugly.
Isn't it also kind of dying out in terms of popularity? (I really don't know)
Re: Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT interested in and why?
#7Pretty much all of them. I started with C and never liked OO programming. Even when kind of optional in the language, for your own code, you still have to deal with an OO library ecosystem because everyone writes the libraries that way when the language supports it. It kind of depends on what you mean by popular. I don’t have much interest in Rust. It has a lot of hype right now. It doesn’t seem like a bad language,…
Do tell more, what high level stuff do people want to use Rust for?
Re: Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT interested in and why?
#8I can't really think of a current language I wouldn't be interested in learning or learning better. But there are languages that I am just not sure I am sold yet on, like Haskell. I am not saying it is bad as I just don't know, and functional programming isn't bad, but I am just not sure why Haskell over other options. Would love to hear reasons it might be a better choice and in what circumstances it is advantageous…
Depends what you want and what you value.
Do you really need types? I did work in Clojure and I think having good support for immutable data-structures got me 80% of the benefits of functional programming.
Similarily, maybe you are sold on actors and message-passing and Erlang/Elixir is proven there :)
Or you would like types, but are not sure about the whole separation of IO from pure functions in type system, you could try Ocaml (or its Javscript-looking reskin Reasonml). Like, you don't get type-classes, but polymorphic variants are nice and there is this interesting module system.
Or, if you really want to encode your domain in types and then maybe even use the type-system to solve your programming for you, maybe try Idris? Like I have been meaning to go through 'Type-Driven Development with Idris' one day :)
But maybe Ocaml is too little and Idris is too much and Haskell sits in the nice middle ground you like :-)
Re: Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT interested in and why?
#9I can't really think of a current language I wouldn't be interested in learning or learning better. But there are languages that I am just not sure I am sold yet on, like Haskell. I am not saying it is bad as I just don't know, and functional programming isn't bad, but I am just not sure why Haskell over other options. Would love to hear reasons it might be a better choice and in what circumstances it is advantageous…
> Would love to hear reasons it might be a better choice and in what circumstances it is advantageous.
Check out /r/haskell. You'll get plenty of posts supporting the language.