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Re: Ask HN: What new or hot technology do you recommend learning?

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Post by skrebbel »

Elixir. While Rust and Go get way more exposure lately, they're mostly designed for systems programming. Many more of us do web development, and it's really amazing how fast Elixir has become a very cool and mature environment for developing great web apps.

Elixir is a really cool language, and also a great way to learn functional programming. But more than that, it gets all the non-languagy stuff right. The build system is amazing, your code hot-reloads out of the box, dependency management is very well done (source-only, git-friendly, project-local, etc), the community is very friendly and going fast.

And code scales by default. I might exaggerate here, but sometimes it feels like need to really try to write code that's hard to spread across servers. If you consider it's non-trivial to even use all your CPU cores on Node.js, the Erlang VM will blow your mind.

Re: Ask HN: What new or hot technology do you recommend learning?

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Post by infinotize »

What's recommended for an experienced "back-end" developer who wants to dabble in front end and web development, but never spent much time in it? It seems like there are a million options for web stack components, and a lot of tutorial resources are geared towards total non-developers.

Re: Ask HN: What new or hot technology do you recommend learning?

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Post by empthought »

ribs wrote: post #29
threeseed wrote: post #3

The hype for Go/Rust is really just on HN. If you are involved in data analytics then you could always immerse yourself in the Hadoop stack e.g. Cascading, Spark, Mahout etc. It's a platform that is increasingly become a fixture in enterprise companies and plenty of new technologies. For me the future will be "container driven development" where everything will be deployed as a container and dynamically wired togethe…

You know what language Docker is written in, don't you?

Emacs is written in Lisp; so?

Re: Ask HN: What new or hot technology do you recommend learning?

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Post by popara »

The thing that I am studying in my spare time are Agda and Haskell.

Haskell gave rise to bunch of strongly typed DSLs both for front-end and backend development.

Agda is sort of derivative of Haskell, and gives you powers to reason MUCH MUCH clearer about your code and what you want it to do.

I have wet dreams of using those languages on my everyday development. Esp Haskell.

http://learnyouahaskell.com/ http://learnyouanagda.liamoc.net/

When I catch some time I will fiddle with Elixir also mentioned here in comments.

Re: Ask HN: What new or hot technology do you recommend learning?

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Post by rmetzler »

ribs wrote: post #29
threeseed wrote: post #3

The hype for Go/Rust is really just on HN. If you are involved in data analytics then you could always immerse yourself in the Hadoop stack e.g. Cascading, Spark, Mahout etc. It's a platform that is increasingly become a fixture in enterprise companies and plenty of new technologies. For me the future will be "container driven development" where everything will be deployed as a container and dynamically wired togethe…

You know what language Docker is written in, don't you?

Yes, lots of other cloud software is written in Golang as well.

Re: Ask HN: What new or hot technology do you recommend learning?

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Post by getsat »

alfiedotwtf wrote: post #9
threeseed wrote: post #3

The hype for Go/Rust is really just on HN. If you are involved in data analytics then you could always immerse yourself in the Hadoop stack e.g. Cascading, Spark, Mahout etc. It's a platform that is increasingly become a fixture in enterprise companies and plenty of new technologies. For me the future will be "container driven development" where everything will be deployed as a container and dynamically wired togethe…

I would have to disagree. If you think it's just hype, try and calculate the enormous waste of both time and money from memory leaks caused by code written in C and C++. Rust solves this, and it's only going to get better once we're on the other side of Rust 1.0, and the library ecosystem grows.

Not just memory leaks... all the recent hacks/exploits are showing us that even the best people in our field can't write secure code in C/C++. You can reduce your attack surface substantially by using a language like Rust.

Re: Ask HN: What new or hot technology do you recommend learning?

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Post by Kiro »

skrebbel wrote: post #31

Elixir. While Rust and Go get way more exposure lately, they're mostly designed for systems programming. Many more of us do web development, and it's really amazing how fast Elixir has become a very cool and mature environment for developing great web apps. Elixir is a really cool language, and also a great way to learn functional programming. But more than that, it gets all the non-languagy stuff right. The build sy…

I'm a web developer currently learning Haskell. Would you recommend learning Elixir instead?

Re: Ask HN: What new or hot technology do you recommend learning?

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Post by christensen_emc »

Elixir!

On one hand it has a simple ruby-ish syntax and a solid MVC framework (Phoenix).

On the other hand it has immutability, concurrency through processes and message passing (which is awesome!) and a bunch of other functional goodies.

I'm not sure how widely applicable it is now, as it's still in its infancy, but it's the first "hipster" language I've used in a while that felt like it had legs.

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