whats your favorite programing language

[Alexthenoobgamer101]

mine is python because i like to make ml robots so python works for me

[toasty6776]

I don't know a whole lot of languages but out of the 3 or 4 I know, C# is my favourite because it beats the hell out of Java, assembler is just a huge pain in the butt and I find it a bit tedious to write in C as I prefer object-oriented languages.

[Radium_Angel]

I have several.

Assembly. Because it separates programmers from REAL programmers

and COBOL. Because it separates REAL programmers from the clinically insane. 

 

[wasab]

Just now, Radium_Angel said:

I have several.

Assembly. Because it separates programmers from REAL programmers

and COBOL. Because it separates REAL programmers from the clinically insane. 

 

Why would you want assembly? That thing is atrocious. 

[reniat]

C++ is my favorite, specifically C++11 and beyond (C++14 is where it started to get real good with generic lambdas and such)

[Kamjam66xx]

c++ is my favorite. i dislike generics, and the chains of not having pointers or stuff like java. c++ is great. but i hear a lot of people arguing about c++ vs rust

[Radium_Angel]

10 hours ago, wasab said:

Why would you want assembly? That thing is atrocious. 

I was a mainframe programmer. We worked in two languages.

COBOL, and Assembly. Hence my comment

[straight_stewie]

11 hours ago, wasab said:

Why would you want assembly? That thing is atrocious. 

This is not a flame war. This is a statement of favorite languages, not best languages.

 

My all time favorite is AVR assembly. My real world favorite is C#. Python is good for doing some filehandling tasks.

[colonel_mortis]

I quite like rust (though I've not gone much beyond playing with it). The type checker can get annoying, but that is the price that you have to pay for getting the compiler to do so much.

It's definitely a case of using the right tool for the job though - for a web server, go is nice, while sometimes it makes sense to just use pure C (though I wouldn't use it for much more than a small project). I've been working on a large Java project, and a smaller Scala project, and both of those definitely have their advantages too.

[Franck]

My favorite nowadays is probably C#. But the very special place in my heart goes to C++

 

As i mostly deal with businesses and apps direct to consumer the need for faster language in that domain as declined drastically in the last 10 years.

Business speaking building customer a softwares is at least 3~4 times as fast as C++ and inside it does hurts my heart a little bit.

 

But on the bright side, making the customer happy is rewarding. Being able to offer more features in the same time bring better contract / better bonuses and happier employee so i can't feel bad when everyone is winning and happy 

[AngusBrown]

My favourite is Kotlin. It has all the nice features from Java, and improves on the not so good. Nullability in the type system in itself is a huge plus.

I'll put it this way: If Swift is the refresh of Objective-C, then Kotlin would be the refresh of Java.

Although it has the same restriction of needing the JVM and having a big memory footprint, on Android these things don't really matter.

[Dat Guy]

It depends on the task.

• Common Lisp (and still evaluating Racket) for most scripting jobs.
• C# (or Common Lisp) for databases. LINQ (resp. datafly) is lovely.
• Perl for quick text processing.
• C++ for cross-platform filesystem applications. (<filesystem> is actually really nice to use.)
• C for servers, CLI software and not-too-complex GUI software.
• Delphi for more complex GUI software.
• Python - sometimes - for quick prototyping before implementing the actual software. (I really hate Python, its ecosystem and its community. No offense.)

[Blade of Grass]

C++ or Java are my general go twos.

[vorticalbox]

Nodejs as I use it for work and all I have been programming in for the last year and a half