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!!!

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
    84·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • abbadon420@lemm.ee
      2·
      9 months ago

      I have this one weird friend who does competitive one-line-programming in Ruby. It’s supposedly the best one-liner language.

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
        11·
        9 months ago

        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.

    • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
      11·
      9 months ago

      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.

        • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
          11·
          9 months ago

          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.