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Best Programing Language

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What is the best programing language this days?

Sadly, there hasn't been too much progress in the last 20 years -- the best are still the Lisp variants (Common Lisp, Scheme, Racket, Clojure) and the ML variants (Standard ML, OCaml, F#, Haskell).

You get ultimate flexibility and malleability with the former and elegant correctness with the latter.

LMAO

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Eh, depends on what you want to build?

I'm pretty fond of scala and clojure (jvm duh) or elixir (erlang duh), but that's preference at best

I agree, don’t limit yourself to a language since sometimes there are certain ones that fit the job. I started off with Java and love it, but haven’t used it in a while since new job and project requires go.

Suitable all the way from embedded code in small devices to operating systems for huge servers.

Which all of above is the reason I like D Lang, as it is ABI compatible with C/C++. So all existing libraries and code written in C can just be used but also have the convenience of modern language design principles. Which unlike the other modern languages like Rust, Go, .Net, etc... it is not corporate owned and controlled. So being completely free and open source like C/C++, D is continuing build on top of what came before, but also bringing in modern languages safety for memory, types, as well as rtti (runtime type introspection), and being multi paradigm allowing procedural, OOP, and functional to all co-exist in the same code.

So that is why I think it is the best choice for my default language of choice.

Rust is not corporate controlled nor owned either.

It's owned by Firefox and controlled by the Mozilla Foundation! That's why I use C#. It's open.

This is just plainly not true. Mozilla is one part of Rust's governance, but is nowhere near a controlling stake. We deliberately designed it so that control by a singular organization is impossible.

First you say that it's not "corporate control" then you say that well, ok it is a "part" of it's governance. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Participation is not control. Mozilla cannot make decisions about Rust’s future. They can participate in the open process to make those decisions, but we operate on consensus, and they’re a small minority of the stakeholders.

>Mozilla cannot make decisions about Rusts future.

Sure they can, just unofficially.

Rust is jesus and the holy spirit. A person who can't see this is an inferior programmer 100%.

Agreed. C and C++ are universal and can be used for virtually anything

D Lang is my default language

But it all depends on what. You should always use the right tool for the job. Don’t kill the fly with a bazooka when a fly swatter is all you need.

I remember looking at D some year ago, but don't remember much about it at all. Has it made its way into any jobs?

I lean towards the one with the best distribution model, what can reach the largest audience without unnecessary layers, since the language particulars aren't all that important except in endless bike shedding.

and that would be JS.

Unless you need to do something more interesting than a browser will allow.

I'm writing a backend in Rust right now, and its pretty nice. The ecosystem of packages was the most important factor for me (as well as the ease of spinning up a dev environment).

Best for what? PostGreSQL is a great DB language, but you're probably not trying to write machine learning algorithms in it.

but.. it's all data! (check 'every clojure talk ever' if you don't get the ref, it's hilarious)

Elm

https://elm-lang.org/

Red.

lisp or python obv

lisp and python isn't the greatest thing ever jesus I'm tired of inferior programmers proclaiming that it is.

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