Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015

#1

Post by meerita » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 7:46 PM UTC

I can't make a poll on HN, but I would like everyone to contribute with an opinion. Which languages are worth to devote learning in 2015? and what about the new frameworks? Please, be patient and open :)

Re: Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015

#2

Post by jeffmess » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 7:54 PM UTC

+1 to Elixir and Phoenix from my side. I have yet to dabble with Phoenix but the short amount of time I've spent with Elixir has been thoroughly enjoyable. I can't wait to rewrite chunks of code at work into small phoenix applications.

Re: Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015

#3

Post by hardwaresofton » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 8:20 PM UTC

I've been doing a bunch of work with Go recently, and think it's definitely worth taking a look at. It's growing fast and is used in some pretty awesome up and coming services, and it's very simple, which is nice.

If you're really into system languages, then maybe also do Rust.

Re: Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015

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Post by rgacote » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 8:21 PM UTC

jeffmess wrote: post #2

+1 to Elixir and Phoenix from my side. I have yet to dabble with Phoenix but the short amount of time I've spent with Elixir has been thoroughly enjoyable. I can't wait to rewrite chunks of code at work into small phoenix applications.

Elixer and Phoneix definitely on my dabble list. Falcon (Python) definitely on my 'use in production' list.

Re: Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015

#5

Post by davismwfl » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 8:32 PM UTC

I don't know what you already know but here are some suggestions.

node.js, express, hapi are all good to learn. Knockout (knockback), Angular would also be good to add to that list.

golang is something I am personally working to get better at in 2015. I am not sure which frameworks inside of Go would be best to learn but I am curious to see what others suggest to you as well.

ansible (or puppet, chef etc). Even if you don't do devops as a job. I learned (still am finding new uses) Ansible this past year and it helped me understand more about the challenges of deploying what I build in an automated and scalable way.

I have also been picking up Lua as it is pretty powerful, but I am by no way totally proficient yet.

Also, not necessarily a language/framework to learn but something I think that is worth learning. Lucene queries, I went the Elasticsearch route, but Solr or others are just as viable. But between ELK and loading our data into Elasticsearch to handle the searching needs of our application really helped us solve things faster and easier. But at least for me, getting the query side of Lucene down took some effort.