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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Philip Snyder@philipsnyder
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?
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@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.
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?
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.
@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
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?