Where you ever really enthusiastic about a language and fell out of love with it? What did you like about it in the first place, why did you fall out of love? What did you learn from the experience? I would be really glad to read your story.
Ask HN: Did you ever fall out of Love with a Programming Language
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Re: Ask HN: Did you ever fall out of Love with a Programming Language
#2Sure. Python. Two scripts stoped working for me recently, I just have re-written them in Go... I see no point of using Python anymore...
It is the opposite of my experience with Perl. I used to write some scripts in Perl just for fun long after Perl got stucked.
Re: Ask HN: Did you ever fall out of Love with a Programming Language
#3Sure. Python. Two scripts stoped working for me recently, I just have re-written them in Go... I see no point of using Python anymore... It is the opposite of my experience with Perl. I used to write some scripts in Perl just for fun long after Perl got stucked.
Same here, got sick of the shouty all-caps deprecation warnings that come along oh so regularly.
Re: Ask HN: Did you ever fall out of Love with a Programming Language
#4Sure. Python. Two scripts stoped working for me recently, I just have re-written them in Go... I see no point of using Python anymore... It is the opposite of my experience with Perl. I used to write some scripts in Perl just for fun long after Perl got stucked.
Same for me, Python has been replaced with Go. I got tired of messing around with virtualenvs and pip.
Re: Ask HN: Did you ever fall out of Love with a Programming Language
#5Yes, with Java.
Compared to (Visual) C++, it was so damned easy to develop basic CLI and desktop applications. Lots of batteries included in the default JDK. By a happy coincidence, it was also a time when Java was being used for lots of shiny enterprisey stuff like "big data" and "application servers" -- Hadoop, Spring, Spark, Storm, etc. So I found myself in a profitable ecosystem at the right time with the right skills.
But I had also slowly started using Python regularly. Compared to Java, I found it far less verbose and with even more batteries included. Data processing, text processing, ML, DS, hardware interfacing, using native frameworks - everything's so damned easy! I think the introduction of Raspberry Pi around 2011-2012 had a lot to do with my liking Python. Moreover, that kind of tinkering actually helped me regrow a love for programming itself after a difficult time career-wise.
Python's been my default language for everything from 7-8 years now - CLI, desktop, and web app backends. I still work with Java on Solr/ES search nowadays but it's not my default language for anything. I have tried working with Node and Go and learnt a little bit of Rust but I still prefer Python.
Re: Ask HN: Did you ever fall out of Love with a Programming Language
#6Yup, was in love with Java!
I learned programming on 8051 microcontroller, Assembly Language. Loved it It took awhile to get over it and learn C, which I loved. During a networking course I took, 600 level course, I did my first couple of assignments in C and damn it took a while to finish this assignment, this was during my master and then when my best friend introduced me to Java!!
I fell in love with it and have been working on in for last 8 years, but recently I started working on JS and Node, they are even better. It depends whom you talk with, based on my experience I would not want to be an expert in one language, I want to learn the upcoming technologies.
Falling in love with a language (Java) and also may being arrogant that I know all the programming concepts kind of made it difficult to learn Node, specially thought java has callbacks, I wasn't used to it and my brain wasn't ready to understand those concepts well when I was learning in JS.
Moral : Go in to learn as if you don't know anything.
Re: Ask HN: Did you ever fall out of Love with a Programming Language
#7Yeah, Ruby. Wonderful, expressive language, but oh my God, so slow.
Re: Ask HN: Did you ever fall out of Love with a Programming Language
#8I was really into Scala from 2007-2011. I even presented at conferences. Still like it, but after a while it become apparent that is will always be a niche language and Java 8 and Kotlin (which I think of as kind of a 'Scala--') was functional enough for my tastes.
Re: Ask HN: Did you ever fall out of Love with a Programming Language
#9Yes, the age old falling out of love with PHP when I tried Ruby.
Re: Ask HN: Did you ever fall out of Love with a Programming Language
#10Yeah, Ruby. Wonderful, expressive language, but oh my God, so slow.
It was pretty slow, but performance has increased a heap since Ruby 3. It is still not Crystal/Swift fast, but still very serviceable for an interpreted language.