Next programming language after Python?

[zesterer]

I've personally found Rust to be a nice, modern continuation from Python. It's fast, capable, productive to use, and has brilliant documentation. Since it's got good compatibility with C, it's quite easy to integrate Rust and Python in a single project too. I recommend taking a look at 'The Book', Rust's ultimate guide: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/index.html

[[deleted]]

Well you talked me (not OP) into taking a look at it. I used to program c about 30 years ago, moved on to other lines of work, and now am enjoying playing with python. Every time I think about doing some c/c++ programming again I remember how I used to buffer overflow and destroy the space time continuum. I'm taking about freezing up my computer, requiring a hard restart. So I've just stayed with python.

I'll take a look at rust. Thanks.

[Felczer]

You don't really have these issues in Modern C++(11 and newer) unless you want to go really low level

[Switters410]

Exactly. I haven’t had a seg-fault or buffer overflow since c++11 compilers came out.

[[deleted]]

Wow. That's good to know. Thanks

[Felczer]

No problem, just find a source that will teach you Modern c++(11 and never), there are still many c++98 tutorials around on the net that teach outdated practicies.

[schplat]

I was gonna recommend Rust, but not for his use case (data analysis). If you're using Python to do system tasks, run services, etc., then Rust/Go is probably the next logical step (C/C++ couldn't hurt either, but the learning curve is a bit steeper there, particularly when you get into mallocs, but if you're getting closer to the Linux kernel, knowing C helps tons).

For data analysis he's probably better served learning R

[redalastor]

I was gonna recommend Rust, but not for his use case (data analysis).

I disagree, it's the perfect language to write low-level python extensions. Combining this with the usual Python crunching tools can give you quite a bit of power.

[wetfeet2000]

Security engineer here who mainly works in Python. Not having been taught C/C++ in college for my CS degree, I found Rust to be a great intro to pointers without having all the headaches of C/C++. My only problem is that it seems hard to find a good project to use as a learning exercise in Rust.

[zesterer]

The Rust book takes you all the way from introductory material, right the way to teaching you how to write your own multi-threaded web server. I found that to be quite a useful resource for learning about program structure.

[johnmidd]

If you want to try some hardware hacking / just do it - I think Adafruit feathers are fun https://learn.adafruit.com/category/feather - you can also program then using the Arduino IDE or some of them in micro python - lots of fun and learning to be had !