I’ve been working with a Javascript (+ TypeScript) + Java + SQL stack for the last 10 years.

For 2024 I’d like to learn a new programming language, just for fun. I don’t have any particular goals in mind, I just want to learn something new. If I can use it later professionally that’d be cool, but if not that’s okay too.

Requirements:

  • Runs on linux
  • Not interested in languages created by Google or Apple
  • No “joke languages”, please

Thank you very much!

EDIT: I ended up ordering the paperback version of the Rust book. Maybe one day I’ll contribute to the Lemmy code base or something :P Thank you all for the replies!!!

  • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    I’m a huge fan of Haskell and (for pragmatic purposes) Purescript. Purescript is hard to find much in the way of documentation but it is so similar to Haskell in that the steep learning curve is worth it, IMO. I rarely find a project that I couldn’t accomplish with one or the other or both.

    • automattable@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 months ago

      Nothing I have done in my career has given me even close to the benefit I got from learning Haskell. I don’t get to use it professionally, but the patterns I learned to recognize in Haskell are everywhere.

      • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        OP asked if Elm is better maintained than Purescript then deleted the comment.

        My answer: Probably.
        Purescript is VERY unpopular compared to Elm, I’m guessing.

        However IMO, Elm (as well as IHP, and GHCJS) is an attempt to do what Purescript actually accomplishes with very few of the drawbacks.