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- As far as I know Jester is the go-to for your webservers and you could use the httpclient in the standard library.

- This is true and there are plans to improve it, if you have any feedback on what could be clearer, you can share your thoughts here: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/4523

Really? I've found the community of Scala really nice and welcoming, always ready to answer my stupid questions, one of the nicest communities I've had the chance to be around. A lot of people are critical of Scala sure, mostly around tooling and the language isn't mentioned a lot in discussion forums, but I think nonetheless there is a great spirit to be found in the Scala community and great learning resources for functional programming. Atleast that is my experience.

I think they mean that GDScript is the best language for Godot. And at that time of writing it was, they tried several scripting languages(Lua, Python, Squirrel iirc) and none gave the 'seamless experience' that GDScript. Hell even the C# support at the beginning of Godot 3.0 was wonky.

But they listened to the community and added support for adding your own scripting language and Mono support. Which is still a big positive.

I have the same problem! They have a manual and a cookbook, but nothing real entry stuff or something similiar like the Go Tour. https://haxe.org/blog/haxe-online-training-courses-are-comin... <- this looked real promising not sure if they still gonna do it.

Thanks for this, great explanation(and as a F# looks fair). I'll try out ReasonML one of these weekends, thank you.

How does ReasonML/Bucklescript stack up against F#/Fable. Is the only difference that F# has the .NET environment?

Have a look at Nim(https://nim-lang.org/ ). It doesn't have great IDE support, but VSCode plugin works well enough and the language has a lot going for it.

Edit: posting this because I'm in the same situation. I like Rust/Nim/Elixir but Go has a great productive ecosystem even though the language is quite "barebones".

This could help! https://nim-lang.org/blog/2017/10/02/documenting-profiling-a...

How was your experience with F# and game development? I like F#'s syntax so much more than C#(plus some stuff like pattern matching are so nice). However I feel like FP isn't effective for gamedev.

I'm not a great programmer, so don't stop looking for information!

It mostly depends on what you want to do. Xamarin would be a great fit for cross-platform mobile applications, WPF(https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms754130(v=vs.110)....) for big desktop programs and WinForms for tinkering with old software.

UWP is indeed the big thing for MS now, but it has lots of programming languages support(so not only JS)! I don't know anything like Sketch really; maybe this will help https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design

You should try VSCode(which is a lot like Atom, has excellent .NET support through OmniSharp) https://code.visualstudio.com/

C# is getting more attention because a lot of F# features got into recent C# versions, people not wanting to make the switch to FP and not getting full attention of MS.

I usually start learning a new programming language making various GUI programs, maybe using a library like SDL if needed. But I can't seem to find anything like SDL for swift on linux! Most beginner resources assume you're using XCode on a Mac.

Or does Cocoa work on Linux too(last time I checked this is highly not plausible)?