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Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

#35

Wow, lots of python. I use it quite a bit too but mainly for scripting. What are you guys using it for?

Science!

Linguistics and machine learning. I just finished implementing a swipe trajectory recognition for a Swype-like keyboard. It's my thesis.

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Hard for me to vote for a single language here. Recently I've been flipping between Go, C and Lua in fairly equal measures. My 'primary' language only exists for some short sample period as by necessity I'm flipping between languages as needed by projects.

Fully agree.

The customers from our consulting projects dictate what languages get used, not me. So each new project usually means complete context change in terms of OS and Languages, in regard to the previous one.

Additionally all projects tend to be polyglot to a certain extent.

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