Ask HN: Which programming language do you plan to learn in 2022?
Maybe a good year resolution, or a long time wish, or a requirement for school or work, either way, do you plan to learn a new PL in 2022?
I've been a corporate C# programmer for years, working in Windows. But, I should be able to do a lot of my work in Linux now.
Mini 2022 prediction: WASM (and webGPU) are going to become universal, not just on front end and at the edge but everywhere as a universal deployment system. The next generation of Arm processors, particularly from apple, will have optimisations for WASM.
Along side that really I'm a Lisp hacker in disguise but for some reason I have enjoyed writing Haskell in recent times, so I would like to write and learn more about it!
Nim as well; maybe revisiting ocaml or looking into Dart.
* APL or J
* Lisp
* Forth
* Lua
* JavaScript
I'll probably have the same list next year.
Forth is small, and learning the basics is very fast.
JS is convenient to learn because it's already on your computer in the web browser. I used to work on programs during my downtime at work, then email the files to myself to work on another day.
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