Ask HN: What language should I learn if I want to build distributed apps?

Posted by chovybizzass on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @08:09AM
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Re:Ask HN: What language should I learn if I want to build d... by 4ipp on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @08:14AM (#26165926)

It doesn't really depend on a language, it is more a question of an application architecture. But there are languages/tools that are quite popular in this area, like Go, Java, Kotlin, Node.js.

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Re:Ask HN: What language should I learn if I want to build d... by chovybizzass on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:34AM (#26167459)

I see. I'm just wondering which one has gained traction among blockchain and p2p apps (I think signal uses Erlang)

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Re:Ask HN: What language should I learn if I want to build d... by 4ipp on Friday February 26, 2021 @10:46AM (#26275917)

Signal is Java-based https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

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