I’ve been working with a Javascript (+ TypeScript) + Java + SQL stack for the last 10 years.
For 2024 I’d like to learn a new programming language, just for fun. I don’t have any particular goals in mind, I just want to learn something new. If I can use it later professionally that’d be cool, but if not that’s okay too.
Requirements:
- Runs on linux
- Not interested in languages created by Google or Apple
- No “joke languages”, please
Thank you very much!
EDIT: I ended up ordering the paperback version of the Rust book. Maybe one day I’ll contribute to the Lemmy code base or something :P Thank you all for the replies!!!
I’m gonna be the weirdo recommending Ruby. I really like it as a language, and it’s pretty fun to write. Plus it’s got a lot of libraries so you can do fun projects like Discord chat bots.
I been meaning to learn Ruby to get around using Python. I like Ruby syntax better.
I have this one weird friend who does competitive one-line-programming in Ruby. It’s supposedly the best one-liner language.
I can believe it. The way Ruby implements “everything is an object” gives it amazing flexibility. Though the one-liners for Ruby aren’t as intricate and beautiful as Perl one-liners.
I absolutely hate ruby. I would almost rather write php. Ruby just feels like every decision they made is wrong, and designed to add confusion.
I feel like you and I wouldn’t get along
Maybe. I just do not understand the love for ruby. Literally all the ruby code I’ve ever seen is just awful. Which isn’t necessarily a dig at the language, but it just seems like it makes it so easy to write terrible code.
Also, what’s the deal with
unless
? “Do this unless …” is so unintuitive it’s almost like it was designed that way as a joke.