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Being a person who has been able to make a living doing fun things almost all of her life, I would argue that it is important for any programming language to be
by lizmat 7y ago
Being a person who has been able to make a living doing fun things almost all of her life, I would argue that it is important for any programming language to be fun when you're working with it. If it not, it is just $work. I feel that if you do not have fun in what you do for a living, you cannot be creative in what you do. And if you as a programmer can not be creative in what you create, you're just a commodity soon to be replaced by a small AI.
- influx 7y agoTo me, the fun and creative parts come from solving cool problems. It’s even more satisfy when I can create something readable, maintainable, and reusable. It’s as if writers were more focused on weird typewriters than writing interesting novels.
- wvh 7y agoPerhaps, but at the end of the day, people need to eat; and programming languages and their ecosystems apparently need a serious effort and even corporate support to make sure they don't hobble behind the times at risk to become irrelevant. I used to code a lot in Perl5, and I thought it was fun in a more creative way than languages like Python; but it's a hard sell this days. I mostly code in the Go language nowadays, which is decisively less fun and creative in itself, but it brings other paradigms like interconnecting services that then allow you to be creative in a different way than the "poetry" of the language itself.
- cutler 7y agoTry Clojure for both fun and productivity.