Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?

Post by egonschiele » Fri, Mar 23, 2012, 8:33 PM UTC

Post by adambard » Fri, Mar 23, 2012, 8:34 PM UTC

drostie wrote: post #97

adambard wrote: post #78

I see a lot of votes for python, but a disproportionately small representation of python fans in the comments. If you asked me a year ago, I'dve said python. But lately, I've been using Clojure for personal projects, and it's making python seem just... boring. (I get the same feeling when I write in Ruby too) The "one right way" paradigm is a great one, and the language is solid. The built-ins are top-notch, and whil…

If you don't mind my asking, as a Python person, how did you learn Clojure? I'm mostly programming in Python and JavaScript today, and I want to learn Clojure, but I keep seeing these very strange talks. I don't know how to articulate it, really. My best metaphor is, it feels a little like I wanted to go out and learn about Catholicism and they said, "oh, that's easy, we'll just have you sit in on a bunch of confessi…

Post by tieTYT » Fri, Mar 23, 2012, 8:35 PM UTC

Post by astrofinch » Fri, Mar 23, 2012, 8:36 PM UTC

reitzensteinm wrote: post #33

untog wrote: post #2

I find it difficult to divorce 'favourite language' from 'favourite stack'. I use C# a lot, and I love it. But it's tied into MS's heavy stack for web stuff (ASP.NET, etc.) so recently I've switched to using node.js and CoffeeScript in my projects. It's fantastic. So right now my favourite language is JavaScript/CoffeeScript, but just because of the things I can do with it.

I agree. I'm not especially fond of the Haxe language, but it's Good Enough that I'm happy using it day to day. However, its ability to export to so many different targets (C++, Javascript [+ Node.js], Java in beta I believe, Flash SWF, AS3, Tamarin, PHP etc) is a real killer feature. Would that count towards this poll or not?

Post by tomjen3 » Fri, Mar 23, 2012, 8:37 PM UTC

cgag wrote: post #37

tomjen3 wrote: post #9

None. I like Lisp but it has its problem. I don't like Java but it is useful and it has good tools and a ton of libraries. I like C, but it needs better libraries and it can be a little cumbersome to write. I don't like C++, but there are cases where one of its features are useful. I hate PHP but it is easy to write a quick backend in which can be deployed everywhere. I hate Javascript, but it is hard to beat it in t…

Sounds like you would like clojure.