I most regularly use Python, followed by MATLAB C++. Python has been practically mandatory for writing code for my undergrad research. My classmates usually know “a little” Python, and it’s pretty easy to pick up on the fly. I’m trying to phase out MATLAB for Python seeing as I’ll be graduating soon and my student license will run out. I know about Octave, but work done in Python is probably easier to integrate.

My favorite is C++. It’s the first language I learned and it feels like home. It gives me enough abstractions to get actual work done, but it also has the low-level tools I need to shoot myself in the foot for working with Arduino or other microcontrollers.

I’m looking into Rust for audio programming. Although audio programming is done almost exclusively in C++ these days, Rust’s safety features without performance penalties look like a promising language to write fast and reliable code suitable for real-time operation. Joining Lemmy and seeing how it compared to Kbin has cemented my interest in the language because so far, despite the bugs I’ve run into, Lemmy and Jerboa has been fast above all.

Regularly Use

• bash
• python
• golang
• rust
• elm

Favorite

• rust because it provides a pretty good expressive type system for letting the compiler keep you honest.
• elm helps me avoid client-side programming hell with JavaScript.

Interested

• zig because of its promise of “compile it for anything” and small language philosophy.

C#, JS, SQL, and (AB) PLC Ladder Logic.

I really like working in the dotnet ecosystem; it’s well maintained and supported. I’m fairly weak in JS and find it a bit frustrating at times. Mostly because it seems that packages are obsolete or abandoned by the time I’m done reading the docs. I know enough SQL to be dangerous.

Everyone seems to like Rust, maybe I should see what all the fuss is about.

Work:

• C/C++
• Python
• Matlab (don’t use this one)

Personal:

• Julia
• Rust
• Fortran (trying out something specific rn)

My favorites right now are Julia & Rust. In their respective fields they’re a breath of fresh air and I enjoy coding in them so much. If Carbon ever manages to get off the ground floor I’ll be interested in trying it out. Regular C++ has too many footguns

I mostly use C# which is honestly also my favorite. I would like to get more into Python for some machine learning stuff.

• I work with Java, but like messing around in C# and Kotlin
• Definitely Kotlin
• I’m thinking of getting into Rust or Go one day, because they seem cool

I’m mostly a hobby programmer, and I mostly use nim for most of the stuff I do, it just works very well with how I think and things just work, which I’m really happy about. The type system is really nice, with the right kinds of granularity for things that I want to do.

For now I’m mostly focused on learning the langauge that I use, and I have been playing around with a lot of different stuff, maybe some kind of forth would be nice to do some real down to the metal stuff, but I very seldomly have to do that. I did play around with factor for a long time, and it’s a very interesting language, it just never really felt comfortable for me, more like a fun puzzle game in a way.

It’s not really a coding language but I use SQL a lot for work. Occasionally Python and R. As you can probably imagine with this list, I’m a data scientist.

My favorite to work with is actually autohotkey, which I use to automate stuff, because it can be a fun little challenge to figure out how to automate based on the system it’s running on and what I’m trying to do.

I don’t have any professional experience or ambitions, but:

Use nim for personal projects. It feels like there is less boilerplate than others I’ve tried and it felt more natural to me than python. Faster than python and compiles. Plus has a javascript backend option. Pretty neat language all in all and does an ok job from scripting to web.

Interest in trying? Probably Kotlin. Seems like another language with wide utility.

@ericjmorey@beehaw.org Clojure(Script/Dart) is the way, I really want to get into Elixir at some point though!