Re:Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by codesushi42 on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @06:44PM
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Agreed, I feel like most languages have converged into some kind of variant of C#. Even JS, if you count Typescript.
For multithreading, I would take functional over imperative any day though. The multithreaded code I write in Java ends up looking like functional code by way of chaining futures, but it is still hindered by the use of shared memory and synchronization (or lack thereof).
I enjoy C++, and the additions in C++ 11 and 14 are mostly good ones. But they don't do anything to make the language more approachable IMO.
Like before things like generics and lambda expressions C#/Java were quite different to Python/Ruby, and js used to be quite an abysmal language but with some nice features nothing else had (still is an awful language to an extent). I think C# 2.0 and 3.5 really changed that language for the better, Java spent a lot of time getting to the C# 3.5 level.
And I remember a time when C++ was almost incomprehensible if you'd never worked in it, but now it seems to be a lot less daunting as you've got bridging languages like Rust and Go.
I must admit I've still no interest in Haskell/F#/etc. I tried Lisp about 10 years ago and it just seemed such a pain, for me I find imperative programming so much easier to map out complex interactions in my head. I also find set based programming like SQL very easy. But functional, ugh.