Programming

Esperanto.

If we're saying 7% is the bar for mainstream, then Rust is my vote.

C# is not even mainstream by that standard.

I'd also like to see Julia used more.

Rust. I've been using it for a while, and I've been using more software written in it lately. Stuff you make with it is just better in most ways. In other languages, you have to go above and beyond to make your code fully correct, safe, user friendly, and every trait I value in software. Rust makes those things easy, and so people are more willing to do them, and so things that get made in it are better. Oftentimes it's just a matter of pulling in a crate and adding a few lines of code.

formal English

Elixir... please I want an Elixir job

Zig hasn't been mentioned yet, so I'm just going to drop that here.

I personally have enjoyed the meta-programming, the ease of integrating with C libraries, and like that it's pretty straight-forward to compile.

Haskell. I think that more people being familliar with Haskell concepts would be good for programing culture and it would increase the odds of me being able to write Haskell professionally, which is something I enjoy a lot when writing hobby code at least. Having more access to tooling and a bigger eco system would be nice as well.

I'm not a 100% sure about my answer though. For one, I might grow to resent Haskell if I had to use it at work, and there's also a risk that it would be harder to do cool innovative stuff with the language when more big companies depend on it.

Rust! Memory leak free code would make our world a better place!

I’m obsessed with an extremely little known language called Grain. It’s not quite ready for production but it has an insanely intuitive functional syntax that I want to use noww.

Some LISP going mainstream woulb be great!

Futhark: a functional language that can be compiled to run in parallel on cpu or gpu. (No need to write cuda directly) https://futhark-lang.org

Pony! Its actor based, with a really interesting type system

https://www.ponylang.io

I would like to see Ada grow. Its clean syntax, rich expressive capabilities, and early error detection by the compiler due to strict typing create a very pleasant experience during development. This year, the language got a new standard. Recently, a package manager and a community index were created. There's an extension/LSP for vscode, etc. Along with great educational materials on learn.adacore.com, it's easy to pick up and start using this language.

PS I created a community on p.d two days ago: https://programming.dev/c/ada

#adalang

Clojure deserves more love.

Assembly, which flavor IDK but some RISC architecture.

If everyone spoke assembly the world would be a very different experience. I'm not saying that it would be better or worse, but it'd definitely be different.

Swift.

It's a wonderful language, it's general purpose, it's cross platform, and it's open source (Apache license). I wish it was a mainstream language outside the of the Apple universe.

What I love the most is it's so flexible. It's a full featured OOP language, a full featured Procedural language, a full featured Functional language, a full featured declarative language, and you can relatively easily make it work with anything else you can think of.

It also has the best concurrency system I've ever seen - and with high performance computing relying so much on parallel computing these days that's a must and often what I miss the most in other languages.

A lot of other languages do some things just as well as Swift, but Swift does everything really well.

Go. I love writing go, its so simple and predictable and the accessability of multithreading and being allowed to create as many "threads" as I want make me feel smart as fuck.

Klingon

I would LOVE for Nim to get more web stuff

Nim: https://nim-lang.org/

Some fun stack-based concatenative language (like Forth or Min) :3 I like playing with odd/new-to-me things that change how I have to approach things in some way. ... Also I wanna find a Forth community I can stand 😅 That or maybe a similar low-level language, I suppose. I was thinking of using it for a project but... eegh. Bleh. Et cetera. Still might, but purely on my own terms I guess.

Also, more Haskell please >:3 Or something else like it. We must spread the glory of FP nerdery @.@ ...And maybe get some more useful (and maintained) packages to work with instead of just kinda having to wonder what even builds any more v.v

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

import qualified Data.Text as T (Text)

correctAnswer :: T.Text
correctAnswer = "Haskell"

Rust

Super niche, but I wish wren caught on. It's a language very similar to lua, but indexes start at 0. Also it has some cool features too, but mostly the index thing.

Raku