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Re: "Help me find my second language"
Other languages exist, but the job market tends to be a laggard. By the time a language has already got several advantages for a task, the job market only just starts to transition. people in the industry have probably used a new languages for months or even years. It's Very hard to know what will be "next". Generally you'll have you passionately drive for a transition when you already have a job.
2023-10-14 · 5 months ago
in short i would say:
for job, the only acceptable mainstream language for my taste today is go. it is modern, fast, well designed, safe, strongly typed, generates native code, has reasonably small syntax, influenced by languages i like.
for fun: ada, modula-3, oberon. i vote for oberon and feel free to ask me questions about it.
i expressed some thoughts here too:
Help me find my second language — Background I am a data analyst/scientist doing spatial and temporal ecology stuff. I only use R because...that is what I..know ? I was never a programmer before I switched from env. engineering and recently was thinking to diversify a bit to Julia. I have quote a lot of freedom in my current job to program in whatever I want. Occasionally I have to do it in python for the GIS people downstream. The people downstream complain a lot about Python being slow in...