Ask HN: What programming languages are you learning currently or in 2025

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Post by adelowo » Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 7:44 PM UTC

I’m currently learning Zig but the lack of a package manager and the ever changing language scares me off. Tutorials are broken from just a year ago.

Context: Go developer for 7 years and would love to stay in the systems space without Rust

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Post by cranberryturkey » Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 7:45 PM UTC

i'm just tyring to find a cool db. surreal fucked us on 2.x

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Post by eevmanu » Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 7:51 PM UTC

erlang? awesome threading model

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Post by zeroCalories » Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 7:58 PM UTC

Embracing tradition and becoming a C master.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 8:13 PM UTC

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Post by mindcrime » Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 8:16 PM UTC

I'm always dabbling in any number of things, but a couple I want to pay some specific attention to in the near future:

1. Prolog: this has been an ongoing interest for a while, but some things I've been diving into lately have led me back to focusing on logic programming again.

2. Go: because some projects (like ollama, etc) that I'm interested in possibly hacking on, are written in Go.

3. A lisp (whether that be Clojure, CL, Guile, whateve) - just because.

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Post by marssaxman » Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 8:31 PM UTC

I've been looking forward to picking up Rust for a couple of years now, and this past month finally got a chance to write a little utility program with it. Perhaps next year I will get to do some more.

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Post by wizzerking » Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 8:39 PM UTC

rust Go

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Post by dabinat » Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 8:42 PM UTC

I’m currently learning Rust. I have a good grasp of the basics, but I’m struggling to use third-party libraries that either do not expose traits that I need, or objects provided by the library have a lifetime that conflicts with lifetimes within my code.

If anyone has any good resources for learning Rust at an intermediate level, I’d appreciate it.

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Post by runjake » Thu, Nov 21, 2024, 4:29 AM UTC

Nothing new. I am focusing on a deeper understanding of what I already use most: Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript.