Ask HN: What is a programming language that you don't use at work but enjoy?

dondraper36 | 7 points

Swift and SwiftUI is fun for my own projects. I use Python and C++ for work.

fastresearch | 11 minutes ago

BQN[1] (an APL variant). There is something really beautiful/elegant to me about composing higher order functions in a purely point free way. Array programming is a nice application of this, and this one has the best ergonomics.

[1] https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/

ocean_moist | 2 hours ago

Go is lovely - it’s super pragmatic and things just work.

sk11001 | 2 hours ago

Forth. I learned it very late in my programming career which started with Java. It just feels like home in a way that no other language ever has.

Mostly useless tho

ironlake | an hour ago

Clojurescript. I used it to build an MVP proof of concept for work and now have to watch a small team re-write it using Typescript and Angular

They’re still not at feature parity with 2x the team, 2x the time and 3x the lines of code.

jarl-ragnar | an hour ago

C!

My job is typical web TypeScript + Python

But in my spare time I’ve been deep diving C and loving it for the most part. Though I really hate strings in C!

purple-leafy | an hour ago

Common Lisp.

stray | 2 hours ago

I really like Lua, it's simple and easy to compile

sandwichsphinx | 2 hours ago

Crystal; compiled Ruby!

metaketa | an hour ago
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