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Re:Ask HN: What's the best thing you've learnt in 2020? by dTal on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:52PM (#25426440)
I discovered Julia. I wouldn't go so far as to say that I've learned it, but it hits all the pain points I've had with every other language. It honestly feels like a gift from the universe that shouldn't, by rights, exist; a fast, dynamic, elegant language that seems to do The Right Thing at every turn. I do believe it will gradually eat the world, in the way that Python did.

I've already replaced some little utilities I wrote in C with Julia equivalents. They were easier to write, handle errors more gracefully, and run several times faster (because free multithreading).

Re:Ask HN: What's the best thing you've learnt in 2020? by bestinterest on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:05PM (#25435255)
I'm the exact same with Crystal, the next era of languages will feel like the current age of pragmatism of Ruby/Python but fast and multithreaded