Ask HN: What programming language will you learn in 2014?

Mozilla's Rust because:

* It's memory safe

* concurrent (using light weight tasks like Erlang)

* practical (in terms of syntax, semantics)

It's also being used to develop the next generation of browser engine: Servo

http://rust-lang.org/

Elixir

Well, definitely Powershell.

I'm picking on you, but could just as easily picked on most the other replies.

Your answer to this topic is only interesting if you explain why. Even a very brief explanation will do. As it happens, I've never heard of Elixir. Try to make me curious enough to google it.

In my case, I'll likely not try to learn any new language this year. But I am going to brush-up on the mathematics that has gotten rusty over the years. Partly because I used to like math, but now rarely get to use anything beyond basic algebra. And partly to position myself better to help my kid with homework.

I friend recommended Elixir to me, but I would rather learn Erlang properly. Erlang has a small community already, why to learn a language targeting Erlang VM that has even smaller community and much less documentation?