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bestprogramminglanguagefor.me

12 pointsweitingliu8 comments

I liked this site, it asks some good questions you should think about before picking a language to start studying, and offers some easy to understand explanations on why you'd want to pick them.

Design and UI was solid. The only thing I'm on the fence about is that each selection takes you to a new page. It would have been nice to have it be a SPA so you wouldn't have to open it in a new tab or click back a bunch of times to get back to Hacker News, though I understand it's easier to build it the way you did : )

It is a SPA, seems like it is built using React + Redux + Webpack among other things, the transition between pages has nothing to do with it being a SPA or not. The routing is pretty well done that is keeps the state that you can go back, and the URL is probably being set by the webapp and not fed by a server.

Our team from Codementor (https://www.codementor.io) has built bestprogramminglanguagefor.me for aspiring programmers to answer this question:

What is the best programming language to learn in 2016?

We've analyzed various factors including: - beginner friendliness - scalability - community - career opportunities - future

Would love feedback!

I wonder where did you get those numbers from. E.g. JS's future is evaluated as 5. But C#'s is only 4. I don't see why JavaScript's future should be brighter than C#'s one.

Is it because JavaScript currently has no alternatives on the client? But how long will it last? E.g. Now there is a "CIL to WebAssembly" compiler prototype [1] so in future C# potentially can be run in browsers (and that's good for C#). On the other hand, if WebAssembly allows other languages (such as C#, Go, Rust, etc.) to be used on the client, won't JS repeat IE's fate (from monopoly to minority)?

[1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/ilwasm

It told me i should learn Java, i will avoid this site in the future for my own safety.

> Why would you want to learn? Have another skill.

> What kind of skill?

And only mobile dev, websites, data analysis, and e-mail design (WTF?) are listed. How limited this questionnaire is.

Agreed on the WTF on email design.

The internet has ruined me.

I was semi-hoping for a white page with a single word: "Javascript". :)

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