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Re: Ask HN: What programming language you will learn in 2018?

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Post by veddox »

I might inherit a project written in Julia. If I do, I guess I'll have to learn it ;-) I'm in a university research group that does ecological modeling, for which so far I've been using Python. But from what I hear, Julia might actually be a better fit (especially performance-wise), so I wouldn't mind being forced to learn it.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language you will learn in 2018?

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Post by cdevs »

estomagordo wrote: post #32
cdevs wrote: post #30

F#, rust, any time I dig into functional programming I learn so many new ways to tackle problems.

Rust and functional programming?

I've followed some videos on f#, rust is just one of those things i keep hearing about and want to look at why it keeps coming up in forums and i actually assumed it was just another functional programming language. Dropping into https://www.rust-lang.org/ I see that's not the case but im still interested, I look forward to getting rid of my ignorance in that area.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language you will learn in 2018?

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Post by jetti »

bgdkbtv wrote: post #28
qaq wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You get really nice lang with very friendly community that will run on Erlang VM. So i'd say there is not enough hype :)

Is it a language and framework for web mainly? Couldn’t tell from their homepage.

It is in the same boat as Ruby was with Rails. One could argue that Rails made Ruby popular but mostly popular as a "web language". Phoenix is a great web framework but Elixir can do so much more by taking advantage of the OTP. I've used Elixir to get up and running with back end services that process data. Using OTP features such as GenStage it becomes easy to handle data as a pipeline. That said, most people who will move to Elixir will probably only use it with web dev and Phoenix.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language you will learn in 2018?

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Post by jetti »

Javascript/Typescript I've dabbled with it but after avoiding web dev for going on 7 years of professional development I figure it is time. I have some ideas I want to do that are web based and would like to do the front end on my own.

Erlang. I spent 2017 learning Elixir and would like to learn Erlang too.

Java/Scala. I did a lot of Java and some Scala for my graduate studies but haven't touched it in awhile. It seems like there are a lot of interesting jobs in the Chicago area that are JVM based and I would like to move away from .NET.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language you will learn in 2018?

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Post by vram22 »

electricslpnsld wrote: post #18
meneame2 wrote: post #13

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Is Rust ready for scientific computing? I understand that given you are listing Rust alongside Solidity, your interest might be in cryptocurrencies, but I still thought this might be worth to ask. I'm very experienced in C++98, less so in C++11 and successors as I spent most of my time on other languages this decade (OCaml, Scala and R). C++11 is much more modern and appealing, so I'm wondering whether I should updat…

> Is Rust ready for scientific computing? Did Rust ever get integer generics?

What is the meaning of integer generics? Is it different from just generics, as often discussed as a feature lacking in Go?
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