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Wow Go has really gained traction. Coming from a Python, PHP, JavaScript background I have been contemplating learning Go or Elixir this year. I am drawn to Elixir because of the functional approach which is different than what I am used to.

I have very similar background after playing with both decided to focus on Elixir very pleasant language and all the power of BEAM/OTP.

Good to hear. I am looking forwarding to diving into it.

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Which of these projects has a truly open development process that takes place in public and on Github? Are most (or some) of these developed internally by whichever enterprise is behind the language where developers at those companies "bake" commits and then push them up after going through an internal code review process?

It's not on this list, but Eve is being developed in this manner: https://github.com/witheve/eve

Everything we do is through GitHub issues and PRs.

Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

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Which of these projects has a truly open development process that takes place in public and on Github? Are most (or some) of these developed internally by whichever enterprise is behind the language where developers at those companies "bake" commits and then push them up after going through an internal code review process?

D is developed on GitHub and is open. Albeit there is no enterprise funding the development, it's small community is pushing the language forward. PR are reviewed and merged. But honestly sad to see it at the bottom of the list.

Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

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Which of these projects has a truly open development process that takes place in public and on Github? Are most (or some) of these developed internally by whichever enterprise is behind the language where developers at those companies "bake" commits and then push them up after going through an internal code review process?

PureScript is open as well.

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Is CoffeScript still used much? I used it a bit a few years back when I was more interested in webdev and I liked it a lot, but I haven't really heard anything about it for a while. The only CoffeScript code I've seen lately is when I looked into finding the cause of a bug in a package for Atom several months backend back; I don't think I know of anything besides the Atom ecosystem that uses it nowadays, although I m…

It remains very popular amongst Ruby/Rails users, presumably due to less switching overhead between Ruby and CoffeeScript vs JavaScript.

ES6 has provided a lot of the features that people were hoping for in JS, and CoffeeScript doesn't seem to be worth the effort transpiling from anymore. It used to be the game in town for "better" JS, but TypeScript seems to have taken that position firmly.

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I'm surprised that Coffeescript is still actively developed. Either there are still lots of legacy code out there to work on or some people just really love the language.

My last full time job was coffeescript. I could take or leave most of it, but returning to C# for a hobby project has made me really miss the null soak ? operator.

I'm sure the craving will go away with a few more days of messing.

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