Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015

Re:Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015 by hackerboos on Saturday December 27, 2014 @06:17PM (#8804356)

I'm in the process of picking what I want to specialise in as I'm worried about fragmenting my learning and falling into a 'jack of all trades master of none' situation.

    * Elixir -- scalable APIs and 'realtime'
    * Rust -- still evaluating this. 
      Hoping it could replace C for me. 
      Ruby bindings is something I'm looking for in the future.
    * Swift -- Loving it compared to Objective-C so far
    * Clojure -- I like the idea of creating an app just in Clojure, Clojurescript
      using Om etc.
      Not sure how Clojure is with Android but that will be a factor

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Re:Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015 by codingbinary on Saturday December 27, 2014 @10:07PM (#8805008)

I can only speak about the Rust side. Seriously, pick it up. It is more than a replacement for C. You get a total replacement of C + a loooot of extra stuff, like no null pointers, memory safety, C compatibility for FFI, iterator and list comprehension goodness, and just a lot of good practices. At least for me, Rust is the perfect mix between C and Haskell. YOu get the low level stuff of C, and the expressiveness and joy of Haskell, without all the brain-hurt from Haskell.

Side note: I do love Haskell, but let's admit it, the learning curve is pretty steep once you hit monads/comonads.

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