Re:Ask HN: What's a strong “use everywhere” language for sma...
by bigiain on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @09:03PM
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For me, it used to always be Perl5 (because I'm old, and it really used to be Perl4...)
These days - since I tend to need to share lots of my quick hacks and POCs with my much younger team, it's mostly Python2. (But I'm still not as fluent in Python, and occasionally it frustrates me enough that I go "Fuck it, I'm just gonna do this in Perl!" and reach for my old familiar toolset...)
I think Python is a pretty solid choice for an "available everywhere, high hack-it-up-ability, readily sharable, and with enough StackOverflow answers that you can copy/paste the first 85% of nearly anything you need to do" language.
(But Perl is still my first programming-language-love...)
These days - since I tend to need to share lots of my quick hacks and POCs with my much younger team, it's mostly Python2. (But I'm still not as fluent in Python, and occasionally it frustrates me enough that I go "Fuck it, I'm just gonna do this in Perl!" and reach for my old familiar toolset...)
I think Python is a pretty solid choice for an "available everywhere, high hack-it-up-ability, readily sharable, and with enough StackOverflow answers that you can copy/paste the first 85% of nearly anything you need to do" language.
(But Perl is still my first programming-language-love...)