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Recommend me a programming language (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by pathief@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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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!!!

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[–] dneaves@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Elm

In short, it's ruined my expectations of languages. It's a functional language, like the style of Haskell, and transpiles to html or js (its meant for web). There's very little that it allows for going wrong, and for things that could fail, it either tells you to port that out to JS and bring it back when you're done, or you have to handle a Result type or Maybe type.

It sounds strict, yes, but not having to deal with issues later is so nice.

[–] YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

You just added this to my list of things to check out.