Programming Language of the Year

jeremy · 01-02-2020, 08:04 PM

A category that's been extremely close the last few years.

--jeremy

YesItsMe · 01-03-2020, 07:49 AM

2019 was my year of Go and Perl. Counting my newly started projects, Perl wins this one this time.

Geist · 01-05-2020, 09:57 AM

I had to vote C++ but I had a good time messing around with R for fun.

Lucio Chiappetti · 01-07-2020, 04:00 AM

Voted fortran for "nostalgia" though I do most stuff in java, gdl (GNU data language IDL clone), awk, javascript and even csh !

freemedia2018 · 01-07-2020, 08:55 AM

I'm voting for fig, even though it's not on the list.

j8a · 01-07-2020, 09:10 AM

I voted to Perl because is beautiful, but I also have other favorites as PHP, R and javascript by now.

slac-in-the-box · 01-10-2020, 05:40 PM

Maybe Elixir would just fall under erlang here... would it be more like a specialized dialect of erlang for building apps on the VM, rather than another language for the list?

dugan · 01-10-2020, 06:28 PM

I was finally ready to vote for Typescript (after thinking on this for a LONG time), and it's not one of the choices!

teckk · 01-11-2020, 11:01 AM

If python is considered a programming language then I think bash should be too. It's a shell but also a programming language with it, and most useful. Used every day.

So I vote for bash, awk, python, C. I don't have anything against perl, don't know it.

I would like to see a choice award next year for the most used, handiest python modules. Choices could be PyQt5, gobject, lxml, urllib, requests, selenium, soup, xlib, simplejson, html5-parser etc.

And that would only be interesting if one uses python I guess.

thinknix · 01-11-2020, 11:29 AM

Perl it is! While not as trendy, it continues to be insanely useful.

Tux! · 01-17-2020, 01:42 AM

I voted Perl (well, of course) but where is Raku (formarly known as perl6)?

The more I (have to) work with Python, the more I hate it. Never seen so many backward incompatability problems (which are the problems I get to fix).

teckk · 01-17-2020, 08:41 AM

Quote:

Never seen so many backward incompatability problems

You must be speaking about python2 - python3. They are not the same.

I laughed when I read that. 'Backwards compatible' and python are not synonyms. Keep up or your scripts stop working.

I don't hate it, just got used to it I guess.

aaron.c · 01-17-2020, 07:17 PM

Hello, FYI - my vote would be for Eiffel (https://www.eiffel.org/) if it were in the list. Best wishes, Aaron

redcat15 · 01-18-2020, 10:37 AM

C always

pmv · 01-19-2020, 09:59 AM

Qt5 in connection with C++ and C.