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Ask HN: What new programming languages did you learn in 2020?
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#2Forth: By reading Starting Forth by Leo Brodie and by tinkering with FlashForth on an Arduino. I also got about half way through Thinking Forth, also by Leo Brodie but it is much more about project planning and management than Forth.
Janet: I am already familiar with Lisps and Janet borrows a bit from Clojure syntax with its table and array syntax. It wasn't much of a stretch to pick up. I used Janet to build some small command line tools. Nifty Lisp that I plan to use more in the future.
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#3Some kind of lisp. I'm considering starting with Scheme and then move to Clojure as it's more comercial.
My goal is just to get used to the way lisps work. Hopefully will find some enlightenment in the end.
I'm already familiar with FP but never really groked all the (((parentheses))).
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#5Zig is the next thing on my list, haven't learned it yet though.
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#6I guess I spent a lot of time studying lisp this year, but I mostly beefed up on previously learned tech which newly recaptured my interest, like Elm, Go, Awk, Tcl and CSS.
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#7GCode for machining.
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#8Golang. Didn’t think much of it.
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#9Zig is the next thing on my list, haven't learned it yet though.
I've been teaching myself about Zig this year, and while it's probably a bit late to achieve my 2020 New Year's Resolution of having something to show for it, I'll probably make it part of 2021's (assuming we're alive by then, of course :) ).
Re: Ask HN: What new programming languages did you learn in 2020?
#10Some kind of lisp. I'm considering starting with Scheme and then move to Clojure as it's more comercial. My goal is just to get used to the way lisps work. Hopefully will find some enlightenment in the end. I'm already familiar with FP but never really groked all the (((parentheses))).
The real beauty is in how few operators you need to achieve maximal expressiveness in a programming language. It makes other programming languages seem extra. Highly recommend the SICP lectures https://youtu.be/-J_xL4IGhJA