Re:Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT i...
by karmakaze on Friday August 09, 2019 @08:29PM
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C/C++ is what I started and built my first career on, back when performance mattered for just about every program.
Most .Net languages with the exception of F# which I'm quite curious about.
Haskell, not a popular language in general but in this circle. I still haven't bought into the value of building abstractions and abstractions upon that, and abstractions that let those abstractions play nice together. Ultimate yak shaving with a practical twist if you can pull it off. Seems too far removed for most problems I'm interesting in solving. Less higher-kinded functional langs (Clean, Elm), bring 'em.
Any ORM DSL. SQL is just fine.
Any version of ES20xx that's incompatible with TypeScript.
Scala. Tried it, abused it, went back and couldn't even read my own writing. I think it could be good in the right hands, those being someone who can design good languages for humans to use for each purpose. I haven't met many of them, mostly folks who just want to make a DSL using any/every feature available to do so.
Most .Net languages with the exception of F# which I'm quite curious about.
Haskell, not a popular language in general but in this circle. I still haven't bought into the value of building abstractions and abstractions upon that, and abstractions that let those abstractions play nice together. Ultimate yak shaving with a practical twist if you can pull it off. Seems too far removed for most problems I'm interesting in solving. Less higher-kinded functional langs (Clean, Elm), bring 'em.
Any ORM DSL. SQL is just fine.
Any version of ES20xx that's incompatible with TypeScript.
Scala. Tried it, abused it, went back and couldn't even read my own writing. I think it could be good in the right hands, those being someone who can design good languages for humans to use for each purpose. I haven't met many of them, mostly folks who just want to make a DSL using any/every feature available to do so.