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View Poll Results: Programming Language of the Year
Ada 1 0.54%
Assembly 4 2.17%
AWK 6 3.26%
C 34 18.48%
C# 1 0.54%
C++ 14 7.61%
Clojure 2 1.09%
COBOL 1 0.54%
Common Lisp 4 2.17%
D 2 1.09%
Erlang 2 1.09%
Fortran 5 2.72%
Go 3 1.63%
Haskell 1 0.54%
Java 6 3.26%
Javascript 3 1.63%
Julia 2 1.09%
Lua 0 0%
Objective-C 0 0%
Perl 11 5.98%
PHP 7 3.80%
Python 58 31.52%
R 3 1.63%
Raku 1 0.54%
Ruby 2 1.09%
Rust 10 5.43%
Scala 0 0%
Scheme 0 0%
Swift 0 0%
Tcl 1 0.54%
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Old 01-18-2022, 07:19 AM   #31
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Not a general purpose programming language. This one is specifically for audio and MIDI. Developed on top of XLISP, once you get over the abundance of parentheses it's a terrific language for working with audio. It's also built into Audacity audio editor. The stand alone version is published by CMU: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/nyquist/

(My second favourite is Python, which received my vote.
 
Old 01-21-2022, 07:07 PM   #32
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I always have to vote on this one, and always C. Although C++ is a good second choice
 
Old 02-03-2022, 06:25 PM   #33
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This year going with Erlang. Well, Elixir, as it's more 21st century with some nifty features.

Now Erlang (Elixir) - it's a niche language. It sucks as a general purpose language - not many libraries, it's slow when you have to do some raw string manipulation, parsing, etc. But in it's niche - horizontally scalable reliable services - it's the tits. Like... wow. Everything in its library and runtime was made to do its thing. It's 5 minutes to make scalable service. Which has auto restart and is just reliable. You wanna do something asynchronously? Return {:noreply}, spawn a process (they're basically free in real world usage), then return result from the process.

At the beginning of 2021 I've joined a project and they were doing this fad - serverless. After a day of onboarding I went "heyyyy, wait a minute - it's Erlang". Azure Function - Erlang's Supervisor - ensures your code, functions - Erlang's GenServer - are running and get called via some Azure Queue - Erlang's native messaging. Heh. What's old is new again. So, Java tries to copy Erlang with Akka, C# - with Orleans, and now cloud providers have their own shit - Azure Function or AWS Lambda. But a copy is a copy with it's limitations, I'm sticking and preaching the OG - Erlang/Elixir.


C# is a very close second. Still a way better Java with great design, which lets you just write code without thinking about memory allocations, stacks, how to do concurrency, etc; first class async support. Still the best general purpose language. Web services, desktop/mobile apps, runs in browser (blazor), can code games (unity). It was already plenty fast and enough fast for basically anything, and they still continue to work on performance - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotne...ents-in-net-6/


Zig - honorable mention. It's simple, it does everything C does, but better (defer keyword? oh lawd, so good. error handling? sane). Truly C lang, but actually designed and had some thought put into it. Main dev creates some drama with questionable decisions, but overall - it's just better C. Unlike Rust, which... idfk what Rust is trying to be. Closer to the metal Java? Has fugly syntax to match Java, that's for sure.

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