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Ask HN: What programming language you use the most at work?

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C# (.Net Core) MVC w/web languages (JS/TypeScript/etc).

The other replies, at the time of posting, don't match my experience with the local job market/postings.

Web development outpaces other jobs by a significant margin, then mobile app development, and finally everything else. But most replies are niche academic or desktop development languages. It feels like self-selection bias, wherein people with "boring" jobs skip posting and people doing interesting/unusual things want to post.

The fact that Java has zero replies so far, speaks to something unusual going on.

Our application is written using C# and the database uses T-SQL. That being said, I probably spend 80% of all my dev time in SSMS rather than Visual Studio. Despite there being far more functionality implemented in C#.

Similar here, I always wonder how much I should be worried about the imbalance of time spent in the database rather than code. For me it always seems like that much time in the database suggests something is missing from the primary UI/App, however can be hard to identify what can be feasibly add into the app giving the same speed and flexibility as SSMS

Since you spend a lot of your time in SSMS, I would encourage you to take a look at SqlDbx. It's a really helpful tool and boosts productivity in very noticeable ways. I'm in no way affiliated with them. Just a happy user.

http://sqldbx.com/

Surprisingly Julia. I work in academia (doing PhD in physics) so I'm free to choose tools. I find it to be great also for some side data science projects and general scripting. I was going to learn R and use some but decided that i can call them when necessary and so far it wasn't, so why bother with other languages.

I taught some Python but also moved it to Julia (optimization method course).

However, there is also some legacy code in (free-format) Fortran and Mathematica/Wolfram Language that i work with so i also use these.

C#, .NET Core, JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS, SQL and Web API Frameworks.

C++.

As Someone1234 said, web development is the largest area in software. I'm in embedded systems, though, which is a very different world from web programming, and C++ (or just C) is the king in that area.

Yes. I'm also in embedded development (and desktop, and networking, and...) and I'm the only dev using C++. Everyone else is on C.

I'm the engineering lead, so I could force the issue, but it's better to let people keep using the tools they're comfortable with.

Javascript at work, Clojure for my side projects

It's almost a non-sequitur these days - different languages are for different things. Javascript, Python, Groovy, Java all playing different roles, and on any given day which one I'm using most completely depends on what I'm doing.

Python for most things. JavaScript when working with the browser.

Python 3.7+ is very nice to work with.

Python 3.7+ is fantastic.

Perl, JavaScript, Go. Python for my side project (and Perl) [0]. Want to (re)learn Haskell.

[0] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

Academia is weird. I’ve gotten unfortunately good at R. To the point where I’m frequently building on a full R stack.

Luckily the skills translate well to Python/JavaScript, which is where I’m heading once I’m out of academia.

> I’ve gotten unfortunately good at R.

There's nothing wrong with being good at R. I work with data every day, and R is a godsend.

At my dayjob? Java for REST services, Python for Machine Learning.

For my side-project? Groovy mainly, and some Java for backend / service development. Javascript for front-end development.

Ruby/Rails GraphQL/REST APIs and TypeScript at work.

Kotlin/Java/Go/Elixir for side projects. I'd like to start using F#/OCaml.

Most of the time it is SQL (for modding queries) and JS (for modding pages). Occasionally, I use Java and C#.

Using Python and R mostly

Not a dev but working closely with devs in the company so I feel a bit more dev than what I saw before.

Especially when it comes to rubber duck debugging

Golang (after mostly Python and some NodeJS and Java sprinkles).

Feels productive thanks to his no BS attitude (which can be sometimes limiting though).

Elixir for all backend needs, javascript for all frontend needs.

Looking into bringing Nim into the fold when the need arises.

Pascal with a small amount of C++. I'm working in the air traffic management industry.

Pascal :)) Nice! I love it. But I havent seen it since school

MaxScript. If you've worked with 3D software you might have heard of it.

Smalltalk and JavaScript

Smalltalk? Interesting! May I ask what industry / product area you work in?

Telecomunications.

And a personal project too.

Mine is a dockerized Pharo that I deploy it as a microservice in Elasticbeanstalk (so it scales up/down and autoheals nicely). It's 2 smalltalk backends, plus one microservice which depends in one javascript microservice for one feature. The only reason for that nodejs microservice was firebase-auth. The NPM package was already available there so it made sense to just use that one. The rest is all good from Pharo.

And the frontend begun with react but I've switched to Svelte. I'm enjoying Svelte's clean concepts a lot!

C++ and Python3 in the automated driving industry

Go and Python, keeping an eye on Nim and V

Kotlin for Android development.

Clojure followed by ClojureScript

Java

Python and C++.

PHP

shell scripts (if those count ;))

Clojure

Dart

Modelica

javascript

c++ is the mostly used.

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