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What programming languages do you know and which ones do you want to learn?

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Re: What programming languages do you know and which ones do you want to learn?

#31
Know & use: (these days) R, most of the time.

Wish: I'd like to explore rust, Scala, (oh yes) JavaScript​/typescript, C#/F# for writing extensions​ for my R code when R is too slow or fragile. I'd like to avoid C++. I'd be interested in comments on/experiences with that.

Re: What programming languages do you know and which ones do you want to learn?

#32
Want to learn: C++, Rust, Haskell, Go

Funny enough, learning C++ these days is arguably harder because of modern C++ standards. Reconciling the best practices between old and new can be difficult at times, especially if you don't care to embrace everything modern C++ has to offer. Multi-platform build systems also tend to be incredibly complex.

Rust solves all this, but its ecosystem isn't exactly mature at the moment. Sadly very few people in game dev take Rust seriously right now.

Re: What programming languages do you know and which ones do you want to learn?

#35
know - Clojure (first language, one I know best via book learning / theory) know - Scala (The one I have the most experience in as I've used for most of my almost 3 years of professional programming career) done-a-bit-of - XQuery, Java like-to-learn - Rust, Elixir, miniKanren/core.logic, chez/Scheme, Idris

Re: What programming languages do you know and which ones do you want to learn?

#37
• Used but suck at (or at least I think I suck at them): C, a bit of a niche form of assembly, all kinds of strange application-specific languages

• Know but rusty: C++, C#, Python, AS3, Java, GLSL

• Currently use: JavaScript, Typescript, PHP, SQL, HTML/CSS

• Playing with: Nim, D, Rust

• Want to learn: I'm honestly trying to decide what to learn next. Might jump into Nim but I also have to go back and give Rust more of a chance after escaping the inconvenience of lifetime annotations. D seems nice but it seems to be pretty colossal in a similar way to C++ and I don't have time to dig into something like that right now.

One thing I'd love to do is go lower level than what I've ever done (C memory management / kernel-y stuff), but I have no project which would justify doing it and I'm time constrained.

Re: What programming languages do you know and which ones do you want to learn?

#39
Know: Javascript, Python, Java, C/C++/C#, some basic knowledge of Common Lisp and a few others (quickbasic, various scripting or special purpose languages like Matlab)

Want to learn: Clojure, Haskell, x86 assembly, webassembly, shader languages (e.g. GLSL)

Re: What programming languages do you know and which ones do you want to learn?

#40
These days I mostly use C, Python and JavaScript. In the past I've worked with assembler, Fortran, Pascal, Modula-2, C++, Java, Tcl, PHP. I've toyed with Lua, Go, Scheme, Smalltalk, Haskell and ML but I'm not planning to learn any new languages at present.
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