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

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Post by i336_ » Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 12:52 PM UTC

shakna wrote: post #58

i336_ wrote: post #25

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>> 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!

>> which I haven't been able to concretely ascertain

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

Ah, cool.

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

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

Will definitely be reading through all of them ^^

Thanks very much for explaining what you did. I really appreciated that - I've never been able to compare languages by "easiest to understand when not mentally having a good day" before, which was great.

(NB. It's currently tricky for me to meet people IRL, so I'm always on the lookout when I say hi to people in the same country :) No worries!)

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

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Post by slindz » Sun, Apr 30, 2017, 6:20 AM UTC

ellius wrote: post #52

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.

I'm building a process engine.

It started out as me building a scheduler (with a focus on repetition) on to the functionality of Workflowy. Now I'm growing it in to a multi user tool for knowledge exchange, scheduling, and completion review.

Elixir/Phoenix/Vue have been amazing, every step of the way.

It took me a few months to grok the power in Elixir, but it's amazing to work with now. Learn the pattern matching. Enum is your friend.

I've used Vue components from day 1, and it's been enough for this former AS3 developer to finally feel ok about Javascript development. So many JS solutions along the way have felt like rickety messes. Using Vue components has been a sane middle ground that brings everything together logically without too much inter-dependence.

I'm not looking to replace this stack anytime soon!

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

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Post by ellius » Thu, May 04, 2017, 9:01 PM UTC

slindz wrote: post #62

ellius wrote: post #52

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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.

I'm building a process engine. It started out as me building a scheduler (with a focus on repetition) on to the functionality of Workflowy. Now I'm growing it in to a multi user tool for knowledge exchange, scheduling, and completion review. Elixir/Phoenix/Vue have been amazing, every step of the way. It took me a few months to grok the power in Elixir, but it's amazing to work with now. Learn the pattern matching. E…

Thanks, I really appreciate the response. I want to settle into a stack and commit to finally building some things, and I think this is the one I'll go with. I really enjoy some of the Haskell/Idris I'm picking up, but I think in a middle ground between mindshare and power this will work out pretty perfectly. I agree regarding Vue: it's the first front end thing I've looked at that hasn't felt wrong somehow.