Programming Languages
Ranked by how often I am glad I picked them, not by how much I enjoy arguing about them.
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1
Rust
The borrow checker is a colleague who reviews every line at 3am and is never tired. Worth the argument.
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2
Go
Boring on purpose. I can read code I wrote two years ago, which is the whole feature.
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3
C
Still the language the hardware speaks. Everything else on a microcontroller is a negotiation with it.
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4
Python
The fastest path from an idea to knowing whether the idea was any good.
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5
Zig
Comptime is the most interesting idea in systems languages this decade. Watching it closely.