What's your current favorite programming language and what killer feature is missing from it?
Laurentiu Ciobanu
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90% of the time I'm writing something it's in TypeScript (and I love it so much) and the features I miss the most are Go's defer statements and the macro system from Rust.
What about you?
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Alexandru Ifrim@aifrim
Depends for what.
Fast-to-market for web/mobile, simple language stack => gotta go Javascript / Typescript. Would love some meta programming directives in Typescript.
High-intensity code that needs to be blazingly fast => C / C++ / Go / Rust. Learning Go atm.
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@aifrim Go it's great! Rust is really awesome too. Working on a way to build native binaries in TS. Here's a POC https://github.com/laurci/ts-llvm
Python is my fav. It suits my work just fine. What do you think about it?
@savian_boroanca I kinda hate python. Sorry :( I just don't like the syntax... I guess I'm a C-style fanboy :)
Java fan here. 🚀
TypeScript for me too! ✅
@liviu_nasoi what's your fav language feature?
Working on a project now in Scratch with a 8-year-old, does this count? :)
@alexandru_frentescu1 yeah, I think so. What's that about?
I love JS - I want type checking but I haven't taken the leap to learn typescript.
Every time I justify not learning typescript in my head by saying "I should be building fast - learning typescript will slow that down"
Any ts guides you reccomend?
@philipsnyder There should be something on FreeCodeCamp. Also, I guarantee that once you switch to Typescript you'll never want to go to vanilla JS again.