Poll: What is your primary programming language? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by dagw » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 9:47 AM UTC

DoubleCluster wrote: post #29

Wow, lots of python. I use it quite a bit too but mainly for scripting. What are you guys using it for?

Currently I don't do much 'proper' programming and use it mainly for GIS and data analysis and numerical modelling, and occasionally using it for chucking up a simple web front-end to either run or view the results. I have however in the past used it for writing non-trivial desktop GUI applications and web services.

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by sidcool » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 9:49 AM UTC

Surprised to find more Go programmers than Erlang.

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by larsberg » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 9:50 AM UTC

ML

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by osrpt » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 9:53 AM UTC

80% c#

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by DoubleCluster » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 9:56 AM UTC

yen223 wrote: post #47

christiangenco wrote: post #16

I've spent the last five years in Rails, but finally got the whole "the browser handles the MV* framework" thing with Node.js, and now I've converted myself totally to javascript. Write backend and frontend code in the same language? Yes please. Longing for that fantastically delicious Ruby syntax? Do everything in coffeescript.

"Write backend and frontend code in the same language? Yes please." It's an awesome goal. I just wish that language wasn't Javascript...

(Smart)GWT makes this possible with Java. I like my languages for big projects strict and unforgiving ;)

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by jamescun » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 10:02 AM UTC

For my current project, it's looking like 70% Python and 30% Javascript (Node.js). It was originally all Python but the Connection Handler (originally written in Twisted) performed poorly, however performance increased and system usage dropped with the switch to Node.js

Client Agent (Python) > Connection Handler (Node.js) > Worker(s) (Python) > Database

For me, Node.js is the language I loved to hate. I seriously want to hate it because it's Javascript, but its pretty darn good at what it does. #ProgrammerProblems

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by daven11 » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 10:03 AM UTC

Delphi - I'm all alone

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by enricosada » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 10:04 AM UTC

F#

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by gcb0 » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 10:06 AM UTC

yen223 wrote: post #49

Kinda surprised at the unpopularity of Objective-C (and to a certain extent, Java). Is mobile native app development dying?

No, it's commodity and easy to outsource.

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by sfjailbird » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 10:06 AM UTC

DoubleCluster wrote: post #55

yen223 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Write backend and frontend code in the same language? Yes please." It's an awesome goal. I just wish that language wasn't Javascript...

(Smart)GWT makes this possible with Java. I like my languages for big projects strict and unforgiving ;)

I love GWT for this reason. Working with the same classes and objects in server and client-side code transparently is such a treat.