Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?

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Post by mindcrime » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 3:20 PM UTC

Where's Groovy? :-(

Re: Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?

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Post by xarch » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 3:20 PM UTC

I use Haskell.

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#23

Post by bmurphy » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 3:22 PM UTC

Seriously missing a lot of languages here. Where's Objective C? Visual Basic?

Re: Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?

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Post by kmccarth » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 3:22 PM UTC

PHP

Re: Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?

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Post by gurraman » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 3:24 PM UTC

I think that the languages used by people who voted for "Other" are the most interesting to see in this context.

Could you please post what language you're using in your project if you use a language that is not listed?

I use Erlang.

Re: Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?

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Post by silentbicycle » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 3:25 PM UTC

You didn't list Erlang, Lua, Scheme, Common Lisp, OCaml, Prolog, or Haskell. (Also, loads of other languages, but I actually know people who use each of those.)

Also, adding options to a poll that's already in progress is going to skew the accuracy by quite a bit, but self-selecting polls aren't that scientifically rigorous anyway.

Re: Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?

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Post by lhnn » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 3:33 PM UTC

I've fallen for Scala, and want to use one of the frameworks that support it.

Lift requires use of Maven or sbt, both of which are annoying tools. I don't want you to force me to download stuff from the net every time I start a project! With most frameworks, I should be able to download a package that I can put on a laptop, disconnect, and build projects in a vacuum. Lift doesn't allow me to do this... also XML :(

Re: Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?

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Post by dacracot » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 3:34 PM UTC

XSLT

Re: Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?

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Post by dacracot » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 3:34 PM UTC

PL/SQL

Re: Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?

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Post by bradfordw » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 3:35 PM UTC

We are solely Erlang from the data processing to the web front end. Wouldn't change it for a thing.