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Comment by 🦋 karel

Re: "Whats your current favorite language?"

In: s/programming

My current fav for private projects is Go. The language fulfills several top requirements of mine:

the language and the comprehensive standard library are stable (backwards compatible)
binary distribution is a first-class citizen: statically linked, simple cross-compilation
top-tier design of concurrency and parallelism: essential in a world of multi-core processors
garbage collection: this is a killer feature if you write a language interpreter
the overall feeling of good design. This could be the last major project of the grounding fathers generation (Thompson, Pike, Griesemer, Cox, Kernighan etc.).

🦋 karel

Sep 21 · 8 weeks ago

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🦋 karel · Sep 21 at 11:32:

On the downside, I don't like how the Go code profiler works: it takes regular snapshots of the execution stack; recording method entry and exit time stamps would be more accurate. I am also not very happy with new features (the new package management and generics) that increase complexity but are neither indispensable nor significantly increasing productivity: for what I do.

Original Post

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Whats your current favorite language? — Mine is currently Elixir and has been for a while. Elixir makes it easy to build complex apps and has so much built into it that I don't often need to reach for external dependencies.

💬 ahappydeath · 25 comments · 5 likes · Jul 29 · 4 months ago · #dart #elixir #nim #programming-languages #roc #rust