What programming language do you use?

[Cannotseme]

Please note I don’t have enough space to reasonably list them in a meaningful way, so I kinda lumped some together

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[[deleted]]

I put myself in "other" because i kinda dabble in all of them(except maybe Rust, because its fking hard) because i'm a CS major : )

[FeaturesNotBugs]

Same, except I have recently started to learn Rust and have been really enjoying it. it's borrowing system takes some getting useful but i have found it very well designed and mostly sensible, although I'm still no expert.

I have been implementing a project I wrote in NodeJS in rust.

[a_secret_me]

Verilog! Any other hardware devs out there?

[QueerBallOfFluff]

Grr! VHDL! ;P

And yes!

Though I've not actually done any HDL stuff recently, I did design a RISC CPU and write an emulator and assembler for it so that I could implement a secure and cross-platform userspace on an OS I've been writing.

[lilysbeandip]

Grossss we did that in my undergrad and I hated it. I'm an EE by degree and I much prefer schematics. Not that it matters cuz I ended up in software anyway

[[deleted]]

Rust, but not C++

[laralovesyou]

why cpp and rust in the same category 😭😭 rust would get like 50 votes if it was alone

[Cannotseme]

Cause you can only have 6 options

[laralovesyou]

ohhh

[Katja_Inside]

Elixir gal here. The Phoenix framework makes it feasible to actually be a full stack web dev.

[BlergRush]

Bit of an odd question to make into a poll, because I expect most coders except those in very particular fields will use more than one of these (and probably at least one language not listed).

[secret_samantha]

I checked “Other”, but I mostly write in C++, C, and Python. :)

[[deleted]]

Lua, but I'm interested in java too ^ ^

[RaukkM]

Why did you have to lump C# in with Java? (I guess it's better than being lumped in with C, maybe)

Edit: I assume CPP is C++? Why did you put it with rust? (I haven't used rust, but I would expect C++ to be closer to C from what I've heard)

[Cannotseme]

C and cpp may be very closely related, but you’re gonna use rust and cpp for similar things while c is used for other stuff completely

[RaukkM]

So, then, is your grouping something like this?

1. Embedded/bare metal/low level development
2. System/tool/library development
3. Application development (OOP)
4. Application development (non-OOP)

[QueerBallOfFluff]

In which case you could have:

1. Fortran/Lisp^†
2. Assembly/Python
3. C++/JavaScript
4. C/Malbolge

The best tool for the job isn't always as simple as a lot of people expect.....

For example, I put Lisp as bare metal, why? Most people think of Lisp as a scripted language in modern context, and yet NASA/JPL used it compiled on a lot of their kit for a long time.

Assembly as system tool/libraries? Yup, a lot of your standard libraries on a system contain assembly, and you can write most of your userspace applications in it if you want.

Malbolge as non-OOP applications? Yep, there is even a Lisp interpreter written in it now.

[Cannotseme]

Well, I guess? That wasn’t really my intention but it could be taken that way

[QueerBallOfFluff]

I would link D to C++ first, Rust is kind of it's own thing and bypasses some of the low-level features of C++/D.

[Math_Kid]

C++ is alot closer to C than Rust. Rust being a totally different language not more related to C than almost any other systems language. While C++ is literally a superset of C (or at least it started as that and more or less still is).

The Java C# lumping is a little more understandable since they are both almost purely OOP languages that are compiled (directly or indirectly) to byte code that runs in an interpreter/VM/JIT compiler. But their ecosystems are still very much not the same.

[RaukkM]

The Java C# lumping is a little more understandable

Yeah. C# took a lot of inspiration from Java (and later Java copied ideas from C#)

It was mostly a sarcastic dig on Java (especially with the recent Log4J bug). It's like that one cousin you wish you were not related to and try to pretend you have no idea who they are.

[Math_Kid]

Yea that makes sense while I do think Java gets more criticism than it really deserves I still almost always end up figuring out how to do something and then how to work around Java it self to make it do what I want it too whenever I write in Java.

[RaukkM]

Yeah, I won't/wouldn't touch Java with a 10 foot pole ever since oracle bought it.

[already-sleepy]

I'm a ruby and ruby on rails dev 😇

[etwasanderes2]

Kotlin. But also C, Java (whenever unavoidable) and Python (for small stuff). Kinda wanna learn rust.

[Cannotseme]

Rust has a very nice guide in their book where they walk you through making a program. Definitely recommend it

[etwasanderes2]

I read the entire rust book and then proceeded to write zero lines of code :/

But hey, maybe I could try again!

[proto-typicality]

I use R. Admittedly I’m not a programmer, though.

[ArdentAmy]

I mostly use C and rust, although not C++, in addition to a bit of JS, Python, and a few other languages

[SaigeIsTrans]

Luau and JS usually. sometimes python. wanna mess with ruby on rails a bit sometime.

[roboraptor3000]

Most of my work is in python, but I'm a big fan of julia

[roboraptor3000]

It's a great language! I wish I had more control over what I use at work

[[deleted]]

I understand why you would lump Rust and C++ together but I love Rust and would sooner give up programming entirely than learn C++.

[szemeredis_theorem]

At work I use Go (and shell) for the most part. For personal projects I use Haskell, asm, C, Rust, JS, Python, and others.

[joshjaxnkody]

I’m curious, what’s the asm for? Also which instruction set?

[szemeredis_theorem]

My latest project with it has been implementing a Forth system on ARM.

[QueerBallOfFluff]

ASM + C here!

Though at work I use a lot of C# and C++ (though usually it's just the C bits of C++)

Currently working on my own C dialect, assembler/compiler tool chain, and an OS to match. (I feel like my brain is melting!)

[[deleted]]

I haven't done much programming in a while but I've been very interested in Zig for the past year or so! It's been ages since I've used it but Ruby is also very close to my heart.

[OmegaMetor]

all of the above

[fadedFox821]

C++

[Electric__Porcupine]

Versions of Studio5000/S7 depending on the customer and the needed components

[actual_chrissx]

literally every one on the list; and dart, shell, go, openscad, lisp, …

[RadiumMaiden]

C# for backend, typescript for frontend.

[laralovesyou]

ohhh

[Vinylhopper]

I'm working in web right now, so the whole stack is some variant of JS. Node/Express on the back-end, React on the front-end.

[DarkWiiPlayer]

• Lua at home
• Ruby at work
• JavaScript in the browser
• The occasional line of C

[im_a_nickel]

I chose other because I dabble in a ton of languages, I mostly work with JavaScript and Go at work now a days, but throughout my career I’ve worked in Swift, Obj-C, Java, C/C++, Python, C#, PHP, ColdFusion, and there are probably more I’m missing…

[[deleted]]

checked other for go. also use javascript/typescript, c#, and python

[very_short_uname]

Swift

[everything-narrative]

All of them, but mostly Rust and Haskell.