• bytesnake
    8·
    5 years ago

    for me Rust because it’s safe, consistent, easy-to-read, all-purpose, documented, keeps my being sane (looking at you C++) and has a awesome community

  • AgreeableLandscapeOP
    4·
    5 years ago

    For me it’s currently Kotlin. Open source (which IMO is non-negotiable for programming languages), good balance of performance and ease of development, supports both Object Oriented and functional paradigms, and has a version that is interoperable with Java and therefore has access to a massive selection of third party libraries (with more native third party libraries being added by the day). I think it’s perfect if you’re making a higher level program like an app or a website.

  • SnowCode
    4·
    5 years ago

    It’s hard to tell because I like the programming language that fits to what I want to do but I would say Python because it is very easy to read and write and got so many modules and uses! It’s my most used language with C++, JavaScript and Shell.

  • wraptile
    4·
    5 years ago

    Python is what got me into programming and I still haven’t found anything that I could feel so strongly about.

    When I started my CS course all I knew was turbo pascal and some html then college came and our course was fully designed around java — it drove me crazy. The first lesson we wrote hello world with a bunch of filler: “public, void, static, main” and nothing was explain “you’ll learn that later”.
    Suddenly my perception of programming was turned around 180°. Going from solving various algorithmic problems in turbo pascal to mystery black box that was Java.

    Anyway I struggled through the first year and almost felt like dropping out because programming was just not fun. I kinda got a bit of second wind and went to the webs to do some research — there has to be more to programming than this mess. And that’s how I found Python, lots of people recommended it and I was kinda blown away when I opened python IDLE and it allowed me to run code there instantly. Everything just work so smoothly - so much space for experimenting and learning and the community was really welcoming (irc, stackoverflow), and there were so many free resources to follow. It was brilliant re-awakening. Been programming in Python ever since and I still think it’s the best language out there :)

  • Maya
    3·
    5 years ago

    Python is cheating because I like that it makes it easy to call down to e.g. Fortran :)

  • adamsky
    3·
    5 years ago

    probably Rust, it’s one of the least ugly languages out there imho

    • nutomicA
      5·
      5 years ago

      I wouldnt exactly call Rust beautiful compared to basic Python. Unless you are really used to Rust I guess, just used it for half a year so far and dont understand most of it.

  • BridgeBum
    3·
    5 years ago

    Python for me, but just a hobby programmer. I’ve been using Python for a long time and am comfortable with it.

    I do look at other new langs from time to time, there’s a lot out there that looks interesting. Haven’t had the time to try to learn them though, life gets in the way. :-/

  • DessalinesA
    2·
    5 years ago

    I don’t use it at all, but probably Ruby. Its just simple and beautiful.