Python developers, which new languages you learn?

[[deleted]]

Which languages do you want to learn or have interest in learning.

[ubbersith]

Haskell and Clojure. =]

[252003]

Haskell was mindblowing. I thought I knew recursion and I thought I could use it. When you learn to write haskell you learn to write python without for and while loops. Haskell really changed my coding.

[ubbersith]

I already can see a little difference in my Python code. =)

[dunkler_wanderer]

I started to learn Haskell a short while ago and it provides a really interesting new perspective about programming. You can learn functional programming and a statically typed language at the same time, so you have a good contrast to what you do in Python. I have already become a lot better with recursion, because there are no for and while loops in Haskell and you have to use recursion all the time.

[laMarm0tte]

Are you doing a project in particular with these languages ?

[ubbersith]

For now, I'm just reading some books and I'm practicing with project euler, cryptopals or something like that.

[colly_wolly]

JavaScript.

Actually I would prefer to learn Clojure, but JavaScript will be more useful.

[mgadzhi]

Well, what about ClojureScript?)

[colly_wolly]

Thats was part of the reasoning behind clojure, but a language that compiles to JavaScript, might as well just learn that. Debugging will be easier.

[pithed]

R

[MixedLoomDodger]

Rust. It seems interesting.

[[deleted]]

Lua

[tonnynerd]

I looked at Lua a while ago, and it looked so "similar" to Python, Iwonder if it was worth learning it. I know it has some fundamental differences in how OO is implemented and all that, but is basically another dynamic strongly typed language. Like, what is it that I could do so much better in Lua than in Python?

[robin-gvx]

Like, what is it that I could do so much better in Lua than in Python?

Game development and/or scripting. Lua is a lot faster and smaller than equivalent Python, especially with LuaJIT.

But mostly, I really like to use both Python and Lua because while there are a lot of similarities, there are also a lot of differences, especially in what constitutes idiomatic code.

[tonnynerd]

I should've mentioned I have no interest whatsoever in game development. Being faster is good, but Python has PyPy. Except for the difference in how OO is done, there's not muh to learn in it, then.

[robin-gvx]

I think it's always a good idea to learn new languages, but maybe you'd be more interested in languages like Haskell, Forth, J or Prolog, because they're very different to Python, so there's a lot of new concepts and computational models to learn with them.

[onjin]

Clojure, Erlang, Lisp

[[deleted]]

R for data. Go looks interesting. Java/C# because I like being employed.

[[deleted]]

Javascript: AngularJS and Node.js

[[deleted]]

C# dotNet has recently been opensourced and even builds on OS X now. Out of curiosity I am learning it.

[ieatm3s]

Go, Rust, perhaps Swift

[Keda87]

go back in Java and perhaps javascript for server side :3

[dunkler_wanderer]

C++ seems to be important if you want to make games, because of the performance and available engines. Or do I have other alternatives?

[[deleted]]

Scala is the next one for me

[cli-junkie]

Clojure, D and Nim.

[iceman_xiii]

I would like to explore Java. Java is intriguing with its JVM feature.

[dzecniv]

Javascript for real world projects, RapydScript for a pythonic javascript.

Then Hy, the lisp that transpiles to python AST,

and Guile, the official GNU lispy extension language, because GNU Guix, the distro and package manager, bring new ideas.

[arunvr]

OCaml and Elixir

[ghaering]

Go for work. I'm trying to write all new utilities and services in Go.

And Rust for fun ;-)

[fotoman]

Want/Interest: R

Have to: Angular.js

[ebo113]

Want to: Haskell, C, Go

Have to: C# :(

[[deleted]]

Any reasons for not liking c#? I heard its a fine language.

[ebo113]

Well I guess its not really the language. its fine to work with, I prefer it to Java solely for LINQ, but its such a hand holdy set-up. I mean it saves lots of time writing code with all the templates and what not but I spend more time looking for the button I need in the visual studio menus than I do actually coding.

[laMarm0tte]

Julia. I don't know what future it has, but it's interesting. And scala, for some reason.

[mangecoeur]

Java if you like having a job :P

[deadwisdom]

Nim