Ask HN: What programming language you use the most at work? • Hacker News Board

bransonf wrote: post #10

Academia is weird. I’ve gotten unfortunately good at R. To the point where I’m frequently building on a full R stack. Luckily the skills translate well to Python/JavaScript, which is where I’m heading once I’m out of academia.

> I’ve gotten unfortunately good at R.

There's nothing wrong with being good at R. I work with data every day, and R is a godsend.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language you use the most at work?

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 7:14 PM UTC

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #27

C++. As Someone1234 said, web development is the largest area in software. I'm in embedded systems, though, which is a very different world from web programming, and C++ (or just C) is the king in that area.

Yes. I'm also in embedded development (and desktop, and networking, and...) and I'm the only dev using C++. Everyone else is on C.

I'm the engineering lead, so I could force the issue, but it's better to let people keep using the tools they're comfortable with.

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Post by jetti » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 8:34 PM UTC

Clojure followed by ClojureScript

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Post by karmakaze » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 8:41 PM UTC

Ruby/Rails GraphQL/REST APIs and TypeScript at work.

Kotlin/Java/Go/Elixir for side projects. I'd like to start using F#/OCaml.

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Post by benvineyard » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 9:53 PM UTC

C#

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Post by zmmmmm » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 11:31 PM UTC

It's almost a non-sequitur these days - different languages are for different things. Javascript, Python, Groovy, Java all playing different roles, and on any given day which one I'm using most completely depends on what I'm doing.