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Ask HN: Favorite Languages And Frameworks And Why

13 points by danenania 16y ago

Be partial, be biased, wave the pom poms. What features absolutely rock about your favorite tools and make others look primitive by comparison? Bonus points for obscure choices :)

mathgladiator 16y ago
Due to massive Not Invented Here, my own framework for node.js (WIN: https://github.com/mathgladiator/win https://github.com/mathgladiator/win ). I would give reasons for it, but I'm biased. As to JavaScript, I think it is an end game programming language like C. We are not going to get rid of it for a _VERY_ long time. Fortunately, it has closures so I don't really care. Any language that doesn't sport closures are simply put inferior. I also like OCaml plus my libevent2 wrapper node.ocaml which is handy ( https://github.com/mathgladiator/node.ocaml https://github.com/mathgladiator/node.ocaml )
neuromancer2600 16y ago
Apache Wicket is my current choice when it comes to Java and web apps. It makes integrating AJAX functions a piece of cake: for the most part, you just need to call some methods in your Java code. I run apps on Google App Engine with it and am pretty pleased with the performance. Room for improvement: SEO-wise there is room for making URLs look a bit less ugly.
clyfe 16y ago
I do webdev. Ruby192 Rails3 CoffeeScript Backbone.js jQuery qUnit Underscore.js I'd like to do MMO games in js, i'll use Node.js server side maybe with ZeroMQ, and client side it's still a eyes-wide-open https://gist.github.com/749734 https://gist.github.com/749734 , all via CoffeeScript.
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kunjaan 16y ago
Racket is decades ahead of other languages in terms of their macro facility. The macro stepper and the syntax-parse framework presented by Ryan Culpepper this year is something that would make any macro writers jaw drop. Reference: http://docs.racket-lang.org/syntax/stxparse.html?q=syntax-parse http://docs.racket-lang.org/syntax/stxparse.html?q=syntax-pa... http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/dissertation-culpepper.pdf http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/dissertation-culpepper.pd... [PDF]
LeBlanc 16y ago
Sinatra is a great very simple Ruby framework based off of Rack. It's great for making simple apps that don't need the complexity of Rails. http://www.sinatrarb.com/ http://www.sinatrarb.com/ Kohana is my favorite PHP framework. It is very similar to Rails and makes working with PHP very pleasant. http://kohanaframework.org/ http://kohanaframework.org/

13 points by danenania 16y ago

Be partial, be biased, wave the pom poms. What features absolutely rock about your favorite tools and make others look primitive by comparison? Bonus points for obscure choices :)

mathgladiator 16y ago

Due to massive Not Invented Here, my own framework for node.js (WIN: https://github.com/mathgladiator/win https://github.com/mathgladiator/win ). I would give reasons for it, but I'm biased. As to JavaScript, I think it is an end game programming language like C. We are not going to get rid of it for a _VERY_ long time. Fortunately, it has closures so I don't really care. Any language that doesn't sport closures are simply put inferior. I also like OCaml plus my libevent2 wrapper node.ocaml which is handy ( https://github.com/mathgladiator/node.ocaml https://github.com/mathgladiator/node.ocaml )

neuromancer2600 16y ago

Apache Wicket is my current choice when it comes to Java and web apps. It makes integrating AJAX functions a piece of cake: for the most part, you just need to call some methods in your Java code. I run apps on Google App Engine with it and am pretty pleased with the performance. Room for improvement: SEO-wise there is room for making URLs look a bit less ugly.

clyfe 16y ago

I do webdev. Ruby192 Rails3 CoffeeScript Backbone.js jQuery qUnit Underscore.js I'd like to do MMO games in js, i'll use Node.js server side maybe with ZeroMQ, and client side it's still a eyes-wide-open https://gist.github.com/749734 https://gist.github.com/749734 , all via CoffeeScript.

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kunjaan 16y ago

Racket is decades ahead of other languages in terms of their macro facility. The macro stepper and the syntax-parse framework presented by Ryan Culpepper this year is something that would make any macro writers jaw drop. Reference: http://docs.racket-lang.org/syntax/stxparse.html?q=syntax-parse http://docs.racket-lang.org/syntax/stxparse.html?q=syntax-pa... http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/dissertation-culpepper.pdf http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/dissertation-culpepper.pd... [PDF]

LeBlanc 16y ago

Sinatra is a great very simple Ruby framework based off of Rack. It's great for making simple apps that don't need the complexity of Rails. http://www.sinatrarb.com/ http://www.sinatrarb.com/ Kohana is my favorite PHP framework. It is very similar to Rails and makes working with PHP very pleasant. http://kohanaframework.org/ http://kohanaframework.org/