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Maybe your area of interest is dominated by older programmer solving problems in languages they're most familiar with, which wouldn't be a recent(ish) one. I g
by sk0g 6y ago
Maybe your area of interest is dominated by older programmer solving problems in languages they're most familiar with, which wouldn't be a recent(ish) one.
I get the vibe from this comment that you think people are doing entirely unimpressive work in Python, PHP, JS, and C#.
PHP seems to more or less be WordPress + extremely vulnerable packages if you don't update with great regularity, so I'll reluctantly agree. What about Python - machine learning, neural networks, and a common interface for scientists and more SWE types. C# - Unity games is an obvious example, but dotnet core looks very nice too.
I guess a better question would be, what _do_ you find impressive?
- tzs 6y agoI may have been unclear. I am often greatly impressed by the work people do in those kinds of languages. But what impresses me are the algorithms they used. If I'm told the algorithms and understand them, and then look at an implementation in those languages it is almost certainly going to be in the ballpark of what I expected to see, and similar to how I would have implemented it. If I'm just told what the problem is, and not the algorithms used and shown the code that solves the problem I might not understand what is going on until I figure out the algorithm from the code, but all the statements in the program will make sense at least as far as what they do--I might not get why they do it until after I've figured out the algorithm, but I'll understand what.