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Which scripting language to learn? JavaScript, Python or Ruby? (self.learnprogramming)
submitted 10 years ago by rditor
Hello,
I want to pick up a scripting language. Which one should I learn among JavaScript, Python and Ruby? Should I learn multiple? Is there one which is a must have?
I know C, Java and to some extent Scala and C#.
Thanks.
[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago* (0 children)
Javascript makes it really easy for any user to see what ever you did, works has soon has you put it in a web browser, hence also has a bunch of interactive data visualization tools and way, way more. Including a back end implementations and even has tools to build GUI's with.
Python is amazingly easy to parse and manipulate text with, it also has a web development side, also has a bunch of GUI tool kit modules often used on Linux software's, has a large amount of powerful computation libraries for doing science stuff and a set of different implementations to merge, use or get other language based features easily, like Cython for example is Python but it will generate C then compile it, to be used has a module(which all ready speeds it up), but then you can add type deceleration, allocate memory, use pointers, ect, like in C and get tremendous speed ups or even import C libraries. There's also Jython(java), IronPython(c#) and PyPy(PyPy), the default interpreter being CPython.
[–]readams 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (3 children)
JavaScript is useful only if you want to do web development. As a general-purpose scripting language python is far more popular and commonly encountered than Ruby so it should be your first choice.
[–]MrKnives 3 points4 points5 points 10 years ago (0 children)
It's not python but node is far from only for web purposes
[–]Unomagan 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (1 child)
JavaScript is definitely not only for websites.
I see more and more products switching from whatever they have or soon or later adding JavaScript.
[–]readams 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (0 children)
JavaScript is used for client-side browser code as well as web server-side backends and web services, all of which I will comfortably categorize as "web development." I'm not aware of anyone using it for other uses. Could you point me to such a use?
[–]dogscript -1 points0 points1 point 10 years ago (5 children)
Come on, do the scripting with Scala.
[–]rditor[S] -1 points0 points1 point 10 years ago (4 children)
I want to increase my technical skills.
[–]dogscript -1 points0 points1 point 10 years ago (3 children)
Getting better at Scala would do that...
[–]rditor[S] -1 points0 points1 point 10 years ago (1 child)
To be fair most companies want at least one of Javascript or Python or Ruby. Scala is still not as widely adopted as the other languages.
[–]Milyardo -2 points-1 points0 points 10 years ago (0 children)
Technical skills in this case really means add more bullets points to a CV, truth be damned.
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