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Python for readability. C for speed.

• jeffreyrogers 12y ago
  One language I've been playing with lately is Lua. It's really nice how you can get it to interoperate with C code very easily. For applications that have well defined "hot loops" that need to run fast and where the rest of the code mainly exists for flow control, etc. Lua is really nice to use.
• Paul_S 12y ago
  Haskell for bragging rights.
  • shaurz 12y ago
    Ruby for hipster-cred.
    • ch4s3 12y ago
      Hardly. Most of the new ruby development I see is in boring SaaS apps, web scrapers, and now mundane medical software at places like Hopkins. Hardly hipster stuff.
      • CMCDragonkai 12y ago
        It's no longer hipster. It's mainstream. Although what are the new hipster languages now?
        • derefr 12y ago
          Elixir is pretty hipster. A lot of Ruby hipsters are banging down the door trying to write crappy DSLs in it.
          • vegggdor 12y ago
            Rust is also new and hot
• cdnsteve 12y ago
  Python is also the most failure prone. " By contrast, the scripting languages tend to be the most failure prone of the lot; Python,in particular, is significantly more failure prone than every other language"
  • Paddy3118 12y ago
    I've asked for more info on that so I can see what needs fixing and if these non-zero-exit values appear for me.
• kaoD 12y ago
  It depends on what you're building. E.g. for GUI-heavy apps and fast development, I favor JavaScript (or any other flavor like Coffee/Clojure/TypeScript) + React. For execution speed and simple (or no) interface I'd choose Go, or if I could handle some platform instability I guess I would go for Rust (I still love C, but it feels like a dead weight for modern development).