It seems like there are about 22 27 46 219 320 493 1840 active subscribers here. I have a few questions for you all.
- Which programming languages do you regularly use?
- Which are your favorite to work with and why?
- Which do you have interest in trying and why?
I most regularly use Python, followed by MATLAB C++. Python has been practically mandatory for writing code for my undergrad research. My classmates usually know “a little” Python, and it’s pretty easy to pick up on the fly. I’m trying to phase out MATLAB for Python seeing as I’ll be graduating soon and my student license will run out. I know about Octave, but work done in Python is probably easier to integrate.
My favorite is C++. It’s the first language I learned and it feels like home. It gives me enough abstractions to get actual work done, but it also has the low-level tools I need
to shoot myself in the footfor working with Arduino or other microcontrollers.I’m looking into Rust for audio programming. Although audio programming is done almost exclusively in C++ these days, Rust’s safety features without performance penalties look like a promising language to write fast and reliable code suitable for real-time operation. Joining Lemmy and seeing how it compared to Kbin has cemented my interest in the language because so far, despite the bugs I’ve run into, Lemmy and Jerboa has been fast above all.
Regularly Use
- bash
- python
- golang
- rust
- elm
Favorite
- rust because it provides a pretty good expressive type system for letting the compiler keep you honest.
- elm helps me avoid client-side programming hell with JavaScript.
Interested
- zig because of its promise of “compile it for anything” and small language philosophy.
Work:
- C/C++
- Python
- Matlab (don’t use this one)
Personal:
- Julia
- Rust
- Fortran (trying out something specific rn)
My favorites right now are Julia & Rust. In their respective fields they’re a breath of fresh air and I enjoy coding in them so much. If Carbon ever manages to get off the ground floor I’ll be interested in trying it out. Regular C++ has too many footguns
Julia was interesting, I worked through a tutorial using Pluto and it seemed nicely designed.
Have you had Odin on your radar as a C++ replacement?
I haven’t heard of it actually, I’ll take a look
Just learned a new word footgun. I love it, so true of C++.
C & Postscript. Been using both since the mid-80s. The programming I do for work is CNC related. I don’t learn new things.
I mostly use C# which is honestly also my favorite. I would like to get more into Python for some machine learning stuff.
Have you looked at Kaggle’s learning resources for machine learning?
I will have to check those out, thanks!
C# with Unity. I sometimes write in VB for its form controls or VB/A for its spreadsheet interface.
C#, JS, SQL, and (AB) PLC Ladder Logic.
I really like working in the dotnet ecosystem; it’s well maintained and supported. I’m fairly weak in JS and find it a bit frustrating at times. Mostly because it seems that packages are obsolete or abandoned by the time I’m done reading the docs. I know enough SQL to be dangerous.
Everyone seems to like Rust, maybe I should see what all the fuss is about.
- I work with Java, but like messing around in C# and Kotlin
- Definitely Kotlin
- I’m thinking of getting into Rust or Go one day, because they seem cool
It’s not really a coding language but I use SQL a lot for work. Occasionally Python and R. As you can probably imagine with this list, I’m a data scientist.
My favorite to work with is actually autohotkey, which I use to automate stuff, because it can be a fun little challenge to figure out how to automate based on the system it’s running on and what I’m trying to do.
Funny how you said SQL Python and R, my mind immediately said data analysis.
I’m not sure what autohotkey is or does. Is it Windows only?
I could have sworn at one point it was cross platform but it’s seemingly only Windows now
The Mandela Effect strikes again!
@ericjmorey@beehaw.org Clojure(Script/Dart) is the way, I really want to get into Elixir at some point though!
What got you started with Closure?
@ericjmorey@beehaw.org A course in software development got me started with Clojure! At first I hated the language, but it slowly grew on me :vibe_cat:
Python and C# for the most part. I’m also putting serious effort towards learning Rust, but I likely won’t be able to use it at work. It’s a good learning experience, and I can tell that my code after learning basic Rust in C# and Python is better than before.
What’s better with your code? What did using Rust reach you?
The “correctness” of my code would probably the greatest single difference I’ve noticed in my own habits.
For example, I’ve become very strict with myself about using type hints and relying on appeasing type checkers and such. The way I structure my projects has changed, where I separate functionality from data to a larger degree, mimicking
structandimplwhere it makes sense to do so. I’ve pretty much stopped usingdict, and rely on dataclasses instead when writing Python. I’ve given up on forcing everything to be OOP (even C#), which has made my code easier to read and maintain. There are probably other things as well, though I can’t list them at the top of my head.Some of it is probably just good practice, a result of having matured after being exposed to new languages. Some of it probably wouldn’t be considered pythonic or idiomatic, but I’m not sure I care anymore. My code is more reliable (and often faster), and that’s what matter in the end.
