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Re:A Programming Language Underdog by gilbetron on Saturday September 22, 2018 @10:01AM (#18045985)
C/C++, Java, Javascript, and Python make up over 50% of language use. Just use those. Massive tooling around all of them.
Re:A Programming Language Underdog by ryanianian on Saturday September 22, 2018 @10:19AM (#18046052)
This. But also "Javascript" is a way overloaded term. The JS community is quite fragmented. Same could really be said of all of them. "Just use those" may come with a caveat of "also be conservative about what tooling you adopt around the language you choose."
Re:A Programming Language Underdog by gilbetron on Saturday September 22, 2018 @10:37AM (#18046124)
I almost left Javascript off the list because of it's peculiar (but interesting!), prismatic nature. Still, they all transpile to Javascript (I think?), so really it's all just javascript ;)
Re:A Programming Language Underdog by kungtotte on Saturday September 22, 2018 @01:00PM (#18046777)
In that case Nim should make the cut since it transpiles to C, C++, Obj-C, and JavaScript. :)