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Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite unpopular programming language?

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Post by flippant »

jophde wrote: post #10

If popularity is not measured in the sheer amount of code written or programmers, then I would have to say Java. It has to be the most publicly shamed language. It's not really the language itself I enjoy. It's IntelliJ. Seriously, IntelliJ makes writing Java code insanely fast.

On HN, I'd say that PHP is the most public shamed language. IntelliJ makes Scala a breeze too.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite unpopular programming language?

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

jophde wrote: post #10

If popularity is not measured in the sheer amount of code written or programmers, then I would have to say Java. It has to be the most publicly shamed language. It's not really the language itself I enjoy. It's IntelliJ. Seriously, IntelliJ makes writing Java code insanely fast.

I second the love for IntelliJ. It's amazing. It's almost like being telepathic - you think and the code appears on the screen.

And even Java... I've also had one problem made a fair amount simpler by Java's reflection, and a fair amount more simpler by Java's garbage collection. But I think Java is much to well-used to count as "unpopular".

Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite unpopular programming language?

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Post by rwallace »

F#. Beautiful language, clean and concise, encourages functional programming without mandating it, type inference gives the benefits of static typing without the boilerplate. And it's a .Net language so you have the full .Net ecosystem, eliminating most of the disadvantages of using a minority language.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite unpopular programming language?

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Post by applecore »

jophde wrote: post #10

If popularity is not measured in the sheer amount of code written or programmers, then I would have to say Java. It has to be the most publicly shamed language. It's not really the language itself I enjoy. It's IntelliJ. Seriously, IntelliJ makes writing Java code insanely fast.

The latest version of Eclipse IDE (Luna) is actually quite good and possibly better than IntelliJ for Java development.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favourite unpopular programming language?

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Post by xkcd-sucks »

mathematica and/or the ＂wolfram language"

proprierary and slow (bad) but it has a huge, convenient, well documented standard library so it's convenient for prototyping stuff

plus it's really satisfying to implement complicated thing in a single line of code

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