Ask HN: What are the best technologies you have worked with in 2013?

#1

Post by domaniac » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 3:30 PM UTC

I have spent about a year away from writing code and I miss it. I want to learn something cool and fun in my leisure time.

What are your recommendations HN?

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you have worked with in 2013?

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Post by lmm » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 3:34 PM UTC

Scala and Wicket. Writing web apps is a dream. And I'm worried I won't get to do it in 2014, because the world has moved over to javascript, whose type system is 10 years behind scala's.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you have worked with in 2013?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 3:34 PM UTC

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Post by workhere-io » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 3:35 PM UTC

Flask (Python). It's a joy to work with.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you have worked with in 2013?

#5

Post by IanChiles » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 3:39 PM UTC

Go has been an absolute blast to use. It's incredibly fun to write, and manages to still be fast after that.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you have worked with in 2013?

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Post by garenp » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 3:41 PM UTC

PostgreSQL

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you have worked with in 2013?

#7

Post by playing_colours » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 3:50 PM UTC

Scala - great language with an expressive type system (many evenings and nights spent reading blogs/books/code trying to adopt its power), I also enjoyed learning functional programming with it.

Akka - Scala/Java actor framework for better concurrency.

Angular.js - very powerful js framework with dependency injection, 2-way bindings. I am more a backend guy so I haven't dived deeply into its Tao yet.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you have worked with in 2013?

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Post by workhere-io » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 4:08 PM UTC

lmm wrote: post #2

Scala and Wicket. Writing web apps is a dream. And I'm worried I won't get to do it in 2014, because the world has moved over to javascript, whose type system is 10 years behind scala's.

the world has moved over to javascript

I'm not so sure about this. Python and Ruby seem to be just as popular as Node (if not more) for new projects, and as far as older projects go, PHP is still king.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you have worked with in 2013?

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Post by FurrBall » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 4:11 PM UTC

New? I'm still going headfirst down the Emacs rabbit hole. You can never escape wonderland.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best technologies you have worked with in 2013?

#10

Post by orchdork10159 » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 4:34 PM UTC

Laravel is "the PHP framework for web artisans." It's powerful, yet easy-to-use CLI makes development, testing, and deployment a breeze! Check it out at http://laravel.com