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!!!

  • Ben Matthews
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    10 months ago

    I like Scala:

    • multi-paradigm, you can explore many ways of doing something, within one codebase - arguably the most complex language, if you want, but doesn’t have to be: start simply, later scales robustly
    • compiles and interoperates with JS, JVM, native
    • Scala3 dropped brackets - easily readable like python
    • great tooling (recently) - compiler infers so much -> less puzzles / testing
    • developed mainly in europe, not controlled by big-tech

    Fwiw, here’s my interactive climate system model running in pure scala.