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Ask HN: How many languages/frameworks do you regularly use?

6 pointskarmakaze7 comments

This past year, I've gone on quite a languages and frameworks expedition and now realize that I should trim them down to some reasonable number going forward. How many languages or frameworks do you switch between when starting or maintaining projects?

I currently have apps using Go, Java/Javalin/Spring, Elixir/Phoenix on the back-end and Kotlin/Android, Swift/iOS, Dart/Flutter, Vue/TypeScript or React/JS on the front-end.

I'm also exposed to some Ruby/Rails but planned this year to use a lisp (likely Clojure). Others I looked at but will not likely use soon include GDScript/Godot, Elm, ReasonML, PureScript, F#, Racket/Scheme, Crystal/Kemal/Lucky/Amber, and Pony. Ones I haven't yet even looked at are Nim, D, Rust, C#/.NetCore.

Even this many going foward still seems to be too many for projects. If Go2 was done or Java value-types then maybe those could collapse together.

I use Java, Groovy, Python and - to lesser extent - Javascript, on a regular basis. In terms of frameworks, I regularly use Grails, Spring Boot, and, uh, that's about it.

Note that I don't do a lot of front-end heavy stuff, and when I build web based UI's they're usually done with fairly simple HTML/CSS + Bootstrap and jQuery. I have been intended to learn either React or Vue, but haven't found time to really dig in yet.

I basically use Nim for everything. Of course I am one of the core Devs and creators of many of the frameworks that are available so I'm pretty biased. If you've got some time do give Nim a try :)

You seem to have a lot of experience so I would urge you to write about what you thought of all these frameworks. I'd be interested to read your thoughts on them all.

Do you love Nim for web? I saw you wrote the most popular framework.

Yep. It works very well, especially when combined with an SPA framework like Karax. (see NimForum source code for an example)

I've been using Javascript more than anything for the past 3-4 years. Still using Perl on the server side.

Aside from those I use HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap and jQuery on the front end.

Java + little bit of Spring.

C + a lot of Autosar

Both for backend development.

Not planning to dive into another language or framework in 2019

Regularly I use Android with Java at work, and Kotlin for side projects.

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