I’ve been working with a Javascript (+ TypeScript) + Java + SQL stack for the last 10 years.

For 2024 I’d like to learn a new programming language, just for fun. I don’t have any particular goals in mind, I just want to learn something new. If I can use it later professionally that’d be cool, but if not that’s okay too.

Requirements:

  • Runs on linux
  • Not interested in languages created by Google or Apple
  • No “joke languages”, please

Thank you very much!

EDIT: I ended up ordering the paperback version of the Rust book. Maybe one day I’ll contribute to the Lemmy code base or something :P Thank you all for the replies!!!

  • abbadon420
    3·
    5 months ago

    I have this one weird friend who does competitive one-line-programming in Ruby. It’s supposedly the best one-liner language.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
      11·
      5 months ago

      I can believe it. The way Ruby implements “everything is an object” gives it amazing flexibility. Though the one-liners for Ruby aren’t as intricate and beautiful as Perl one-liners.