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Re:Ask HN: What language should I learn next? by mattkrea on Saturday April 05, 2014 @07:09PM (#7538833)
Well after reading your comment I thought a bit and I think maybe half of what I'm looking for is a change from the types of things I build now. I'm essentially all web at the moment. APIs, TCP & UDP, aqp, etc.

I would love to do desktop apps on Linux but it seems that my only real choice there is C++ and that has always seemed a language beyond what I could do.

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Re:Ask HN: What language should I learn next? by cjbprime on Saturday April 05, 2014 @07:43PM (#7538931)
> I would love to do desktop apps on Linux but it seems that my only real choice there is C++

node-webkit runs on Linux, that's a pretty reasonable choice for cross-platform development these days. Used by https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable and https://github.com/slate/slate, for example.

I agree with the suggestion to move to a functional language -- Ruby and Python wouldn't teach you much on top of Node and Go. Doesn't really matter which one -- Scheme, Haskell, Clojure, whichever.

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Re:Ask HN: What language should I learn next? by mattkrea on Saturday April 05, 2014 @07:53PM (#7538953)
I've also used node-webkit but either I can't match the performance of a desktop with my code or node-webkit can't. I'm mainly referring to UI interaction.
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Re:Ask HN: What language should I learn next? by xeroxmalf on Saturday April 05, 2014 @07:45PM (#7538938)
>I would love to do desktop apps on Linux but it seems that my only real choice there is C++

Lots of Linux apps are also written in Python, so that might be something to look into.

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Re:Ask HN: What language should I learn next? by iends on Saturday April 05, 2014 @07:18PM (#7538854)
Go and QML for desktop apps: https://github.com/go-qml/qml
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