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!!!

  • msage@programming.dev
    14·
    10 months ago

    I’m sorry, but as someone who was paid for Perl 5, I have trouble seeing the appeal for Raku.

    The first thing they should have done was nuke Perl from the orbit. Instead they built on top of the magic variable hell.

    So no thanks. PHP is much better.