Last year I used mainly crystal. This year I’m thinking pharo smalltalk, if I can pick it up in time
I also want to do visualizations, not sure how possible that is with smalltalk.
TypeScript for me. I’ve got an interview for a primarily TypeScript position coming up this week so would like to brush up on its quirks.
If the interview doesn’t go well, then I’ll probably switch to Go, though. I’ve been really enjoying Go for hobby programming.
Haskell! Because it fits the way I think nicely, and I don’t want to write in anything else :)
I’m going to try with an awful language so I can better criticise it in future.
Java
I always use Rust, because I cannot use it at work and I am still bad with it.
New Years resolution the past 5 years: I will get better with Rust.
…and I do get better but somehow it always feels like it’s not enough. Like, I’m still an imposter.
I can program an entire embedded USB keyboard/mouse firmware from scratch that can do all sorts of things no keyboard has ever done before yet I still feel like a newbie somehow. Like there’s all these people that talk about traits and mutli-threaring with async and GPU and AI stuff and I’m like, “I wrote an embedded_hal crate that lets you use both 8 and 16-channel multiplexers simultaneously!” or, “I wrote an interface that let’s you use the extra space in your RP2040 flash memory as a filesystem!”
Yet everything I ever write in Rust always just uses the most basic and simple features because I still have trouble with complex lifetimes (passing them around quickly gets too confusing for me) and traits that work with non-basic types (because in the world of embedded
'staticis king).
Whitespace
6502 machine code
On real hardware?
It’ll definitely be running on hardware
I want to learn rust but I don’t think I have the socks for it
Going with c# again. I know the language super well but don’t often have a chance to get really deep into it with the stuff at work. These often present very non typical problems that require lesser used features.
C# is like a black hole for me. Ever since I started using it, I have been unable to really get into anything else.
If I would have learned it later, I could have learned five other languages instead ( really learned, I have still played with a bunch ).
I’d advise to pick up at least a second language for your non-critical projects. At first it feels so uncomfortable, but as you gain proficiency, you’ll see it’s a real ego boost. You realise that there really isn’t anything you can’t learn.
