Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–60 of 63 posts

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

#51

Post by rl3 »

zorked wrote: post #43
rl3 wrote: post #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 momen…

Why would you not want to embrance modern C++? That's what makes C++ (potentially) worth learning today.

More like selectively embracing due to complexity and optimization reasons. I'm a huge fan of keeping things as simple as possible.

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

#52

Post by ellius »

slindz wrote: post #49

Current daily: Elixir (Phoenix), Javascript (Vue) Recent-ish daily: Ruby (Rails) Before that daily: AS3/AS2 (many), PHP (WordPress, Yii, others), Throughout: HTML/CSS/JS, SQL, Side note: I was surprised at how short my list was. It feels like it should be much longer (edit: as if I'm forgetting a bunch). As far as wanting to learn? I've only scratched the surface on Elixir (~1yr). Will continue unwrapping that awesom…

Can you explain (as much as you're able) what kind of application you're building with Elixir + Vue? I've been casually picking up both of those and I think it's a stack I'd like to make a lot of use of, so I'm curious what your experience with it has been.

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

#55

Post by tlackemann »

zorked wrote: post #43
rl3 wrote: post #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 momen…

Why would you not want to embrance modern C++? That's what makes C++ (potentially) worth learning today.

Do you have good resources on modern C++? I'm in the same boat of wanting to learn either Rust or C++ but I'm finding it hard to focus on what's makes up modern C++ and what I should avoid.

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

#56

Post by rl3 »

tlackemann wrote: post #55
zorked wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you not want to embrance modern C++? That's what makes C++ (potentially) worth learning today.

Do you have good resources on modern C++? I'm in the same boat of wanting to learn either Rust or C++ but I'm finding it hard to focus on what's makes up modern C++ and what I should avoid.

As a fellow passenger on that boat:

The 4th edition of Stroustrup's classic was updated to reflect modern practices. [0]

Scott Meyers, author of Effective C++ also wrote Modern Effective C++. [1]

Lastly for pure online reference, cppreference.com. [2]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Language-4th/dp/0321563...

[1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033707.do

[2] http://en.cppreference.com/w/

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

#57

Post by mattnewport »

rl3 wrote: post #51
zorked wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you not want to embrance modern C++? That's what makes C++ (potentially) worth learning today.

More like selectively embracing due to complexity and optimization reasons. I'm a huge fan of keeping things as simple as possible.

My feeling is that modern C++ generally makes things simpler once you know and understand the new features (a large part of why I like it). In most cases they are either as performant or more performant than the old ways of accomplishing similar goals too (and that's an explicit design goal of new C++ features).

I'm curious what features you're avoiding due to complexity or performance concerns?

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

#58

Post by shakna »

i336_ wrote: post #25
shakna wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Interesting. Maybe we should compare notes sometimes. I have a bit of a story with finding alternative-type stuff. I really like the theory of programming, and am constantly looking for languages that are a) easier to write b) amazingly expressive Its always finding what's out there. > - I've been contemplating tackling Python, in spite of the 2.x/3.x thing. There's the perfect vacuum where versioning shouldn't be…

>> I've been contemplating tackling Python, in spite of the 2.x/3.x thing. (...) > Thankfully, that's mostly gone now. Few enterprises still holding out, but most of the big libraries are 2/3 or 3 only. Oh okay. I think I got got mildly tangled by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13019819 a little while back. > Awk is different, but great. > I had a boss at a previous job who'd used it for at least a decade for e…

> which I haven't been able to concretely ascertain

I do have fun befuddling geo stuff online. But these days, somewhere around Melbourne.

> I may have poked through some of your tales...

There's a website, with RSS in my HN account. Have fun!

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

#59

Post by borge »

I know Python, Clojure, C#, Java and to some extent (not so modern) C++. Python and Clojure is what I use on a daily basis.

I'd love to learn Haskell, and I've actually started, but I've come to the realization that I should focus more on CS fundamentals instead of just hoarding languages.

Post reply on HN