Ask HN: Ignoring popularity and packages, which programming language is best?

Posted by m1sta_ on Saturday June 18, 2022 @12:41AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Packages and popularity aside, what programming language do you personally think has the best balance of brevity, expressiveness, and readability

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Re:Ask HN: Ignoring popularity and packages, which programmi... by manx on Saturday June 18, 2022 @10:49AM (#31790288)

Scala got lots of details right. The ecosystem is not as big as e.g. typescript but I'm already using it exclusively to build full stack apps in production.

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Re:Ask HN: Ignoring popularity and packages, which programmi... by neutrino007 on Sunday June 19, 2022 @11:29PM (#31806002)

C# Developer productivity is unbeatable.

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Re:Ask HN: Ignoring popularity and packages, which programmi... by ilovhn on Saturday June 18, 2022 @11:48AM (#31790939)

Java. <3

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Re:Ask HN: Ignoring popularity and packages, which programmi... by m1sta_ on Sunday June 19, 2022 @07:36AM (#31798371)

You don't find it verbose?

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Re:Ask HN: Ignoring popularity and packages, which programmi... by ilovhn on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @03:17PM (#31827926)

Yeah but that's quite a small issue i think.

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Re:Ask HN: Ignoring popularity and packages, which programmi... by graylien on Saturday June 18, 2022 @02:58AM (#31787770)

Swift ?

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