Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

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Post by sdegutis » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:02 PM UTC

I realized that almost all I ever do on HN is press Cmd-F, type "lang", see 0 results, and close it. So I figured I'd just ask y'all instead.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

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Post by mburst » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:19 PM UTC

Happy to see Python getting first party support for concurrency.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

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Post by kerryritter » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:20 PM UTC

As primarily a C# and JavaScript developer, I'd say TypeScript. Best of both worlds and I feel pretty productive in it (once past the pain of setup).

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Post by ttronicm » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:22 PM UTC

Elixir makes me warm and fuzzy.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

#5

Post by tal_berzniz » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:23 PM UTC

JS ES2015. The syntax looks awful at first glance, but after heavily using it, there's much more power to this language now.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

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Post by rajandatta » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:23 PM UTC

Picat. A new language that blends different paradigms including logic programming, constraint solving, pattern matching into a cohesive whole. Allows for very compact, elegant solutions to many problems.

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Post by zoul » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:24 PM UTC

Haskell, seeing I still have so much to learn. Elm, because there seems to be a sane web frontend language. Swift, because I can do daily work in a modern language with so many parts done right.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

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Post by rajandatta » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:25 PM UTC

Also like newLISP. Powerful, small, practical and thought provoking.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?

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Post by jjpe » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:25 PM UTC

Rust: it provides extremely strong guarantees about your code at compile time so that usually it feels like a script language with C/C++-levels of performance. And the best part: no data races, and no runtime garbage collector overhead.

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Post by ralusek » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 9:27 PM UTC

tal_berzniz wrote: post #5

JS ES2015. The syntax looks awful at first glance, but after heavily using it, there's much more power to this language now.

The syntax looks awful? It looks extremely clean. It cleaned up the JS syntax enormously...