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Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015

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Re: Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015

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Post by codygman »

darthVapor wrote: post #59
Cyther606 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, shipping the dependencies in a single binary is the easiest way to package software. Nim is the same as Go in this respect: native code generation via compilation to C without a VM. And for me, Nim's Pythonic syntax is hands down more pleasant than Go's or even D's. It's the only systems programming language I've come across where it feels like I'm coding at the speed of thought.

I haven't heard much about Nim (until reading this post). I saw that someone was comparing it to python in a way? What are your thoughts on it?

I believe Nim also has generics and macros.

Re: Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015

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Post by codygman »

Snap/Haskell/(opaleye|esqueleto|groundhog)/postgres web applications

Elm

Netwire games - Haskell frp

Gloss - Haskell 2d graphics

Nim (generics, fast, enforce purity, macros)

Idris - Becoming more useful for real world problems.

Clojure - fun pragmatic lisp that leverages the JVM

Re: Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015

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Post by yami »

Hi, I’m in my third year in a French IT School. I’ve used A LOT of C/C++ during my first years and now I’m learning bit of Java and C#. I learned Ruby On Rails through a 6 months internship while I was in my first year and I fell in love with the ruby world. I also used some OCaml (and this is actually great!) and some x86_64 ASM at school.

So I’ve read all your comments and I’ve seen a lot of kind of esoteric languages. I mean that I’ve already heard about them but I’ve never figured out if they are really used in companies. I also love to check on new things and look at new languages with cool syntax and fun features but is it really useful? Are languages like Erlang, J, F#, Rust, Haskell or Nim really used in your companies? Are they worth to learn to find a job? From what I’ve seen / what I know node.js has grown A LOT this year. I’ve seen several job offers asking for node.js. I think I am going to focus on this from now on.

Thanks for reading / giving your opinion in comments ;)

Re: Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015

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Post by V-2 »

yami wrote: post #65

Hi, I’m in my third year in a French IT School. I’ve used A LOT of C/C++ during my first years and now I’m learning bit of Java and C#. I learned Ruby On Rails through a 6 months internship while I was in my first year and I fell in love with the ruby world. I also used some OCaml (and this is actually great!) and some x86_64 ASM at school. So I’ve read all your comments and I’ve seen a lot of kind of esoteric langua…

Erlang or Haskell - rare, but esoteric??

I don't think it's fair to lump them into the same category as Rust (which may or may not gain popularity, it's too early to say), or Nim (now that's truly an esoteric one).

Re: Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015

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Post by V-2 »

pjmlp wrote: post #30
mateuszf wrote: post #26

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Are you sure that 97% developers use Windows? From my experience developers use Linux / OS X more often than regular users.

Only if you mean web applications. Many do write desktop applications.

Not only web applications. There's all the iOS devs, for instance. Pretty big market, and it's rather hard to do this job on a Windows machine.

Re: Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015

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Post by klibertp »

drethemadrapper wrote: post #67

I am rooting for Haxe (as a language, compiler & set of tools) and Lua (for embedded system programming). They rock!! BTW, they are the next generation programming languages.

> BTW, they are the next generation programming languages.

What does this mean? You mean like those: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_la... ?

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